Gabriel “Gabby” Fernandez, Director of the #Mana Film Gabby Fernandez began his career in the film and television industry as an acting coach 1996. That year, he was tasked to train young talents from ABS-CBN, then the country’s undisputable top television network. In that same year, Peque Gallaga asked him to become part of his film-making team, serving as Art Director for the American Production Designer Bradley Mayer in the Peque Gallaga-Lore Reyes film “Magic Kingdom” (1997, Viva Films). He served as Art Director for two more succeeding Gallaga-Reyes films, namely: Gangland (1998, Viva Films), Puso Ng Pasko (1998, Star Cinema). In 1999, he production designed “Ang Kabit Ni Mrs. Montero” (Viva Films) made the same directing tandem. He then went back to his first-love, acting coaching, for Gallaga-Reyes’ “Unfaithful Wife 2” (Viva Films) and “Sa Piling Ng Aswang” (Regal Films) for which he also co-wrote the screenplay. In 2006, he directed his first film “Nasaan Si Francis?”, produced by Unitel Pictures. The film is a farcical take on the local drug scene, one of the few films in the country to tackle this taboo subject head-on. It received mainstream funding and was distributed nationwide in 1996. In 2007, he decided to enter the academe becoming first a faculty of, and later on Chairman, of the Production Design Department at the De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde. In 2009, the National Commission for Culture and the Arts Cinema Committee tapped him to help establish Cinema Rehiyon - the first festival that focused solely on Philippine regional cinema. He was Festival Director of Cinema Rehiyon 2009, 2010 and Festival Coordinator in 2011. “MANA”, produced by the De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde, is his second full feature film and is based on his 2011 Urian-nominated short film of the same title.
Posted on: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 08:07:23 +0000
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