Steven Sills
Partner | ssills@ghjadvisors.com | 310.873.1653

Steve has over 25 years of entertainment accounting experience. His specialty involves audits of production and distribution of motion pictures and television programs on behalf of third party participants. Steve's other areas of expertise include merchandise licensing royalty audits and valuation of film and television properties and libraries. As a consultant, he has given expert testimony in entertainment litigation, been a contract negotiator for profit and royalty participants and participated in settlement negotiations of audit claims. Before founding Sills & Gentille in 1990, Steve spent 13 years at the CPA firm of Laventhol & Horwath.

Steve is an attorney, CPA and Forensic CPA. He has been a featured speaker at the California Society of Certified Public Accountants and New York CPA Foundation, as well as the UCLA and USC film schools. In addition, he taught a profit participation in film and television class at UCLA. Steve's publications include the following:
  • Profit Participation in the Motion Picture Industry, Los Angeles Lawyer, April 1989
  • Participants in the Motion Picture Industry, Entertainment, Publishing and the Arts Handbook, 1987
  • Movie Money: Understanding Hollywood's Creative Accounting Practices, 1998 (2nd edition published in 2006). Available on Amazon.com.
Michele Gentille
Partner | mgentille@ghjadvisors.com | 310.873.1654

Michele specializes in performing audits of production and distribution of motion picture and television programs on behalf of third party participants. Michele's other areas of expertise include: performing audits of merchandise licensing, consultation in motion picture and television litigation, contract negotiation for film and television profit participants and settlement negotiation of audit claims.

Prior experience includes review and compilation of financial statements as well as preparation of federal and state tax returns for businesses and individuals. Before joining Sills & Gentille, Michele was as a Senior Accountant at Laventhol & Horwath and a Staff Accountant/Senior Accountant at Bloch and Company.

Michele is a frequent lecturer and speaker at universities and seminars. She was educated at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh.