Regina Banali is a producer and director and former actress. After two decades and over 50 film and television roles she stepped behind the camera in 2008. She is most known for directing Quiet Riot: Well Now You're Here, There's No Way Back (2014), a documentary on the band Quiet Riot. An early pioneer of crowdfunding, she raised the seed money on Kickstarter in 2010. It was quickly acquired by the Showtime Network and was released worldwide.

One of her first acting roles was as a mermaid in Steven Spielberg's Hook (1991). She has also enjoyed a career as a host and fashion correspondent. She hosted style segments on Today (1952), Access Hollywood (1996), among many others, and appeared as a third chair host on The Fashion Team (2006), as a celebrity style expert. Regina is an active member of The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Alliance of Women Directors, Glass Elevator & Women In Film. She is also an Intimacy Coordinator and President and CEO of Intimacy Coordinators in Film and Television Alliance.

Quiet Riot: Well Now You're Here, There's No Way Back

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At the premiere of her film "Well Now You're Here, There's No Way Back" at the Newport Beach Film Festival April 29th, 2014

Directing 'The Quiet Riot Movie' (working title) Feature length documentary. 

Quiet Riot: Well Now You're Here, There's No Way Back (2014)

Dustin Hoffman, Julia Roberts, Robin Williams, Bob Hoskins, Dante Basco, David Crosby, Robert Amico, Jasen Fisher, Stephanie Furst, Raushan Hammond, James Madio, Regina Russell Banali, Alex Zuckerman, and Paul Babb in Hook (1991)

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