Fernando (Lorca, 1992) is a film producer, screenwriter and director. After years working as a playwright in Madrid, and after receiving numerous awards for his short plays, he moved to New York to study screenwriting and film directing at Columbia University, thanks to a scholarship from La Caixa.

His first short film ‘Blackout’ was selected for the Cartagena International Film Festival, among others. His second short film ‘Fin’ received the CIMA Award for Best Filmmaker at the Elche International Independent Film Festival, the Lucía Award for Best Fiction Short Film at the Gibara International Film Festival in Cuba, and Second Prize for Best Short Film at the Madroño Awards of the Madrid City Council, among others. It has also been selected for more than forty film festivals around the world, including the Festival Cine Solidario de Guadalajara, the FanCineGay de Extremadura, BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival, or AMOR Festival Internacional de Cine LGBT de Chile, among others.

His latest work, the short film ‘Leo’ will premiere at Reeling: Chicago’s LGBTQ+ Festival in the United States in autumn 2023, and he has just finished shooting ‘Gallina’, a very personal story filmed entirely in his native Lorca. Fernando is already working on the development of his first feature film, which he hopes to shoot in 2025.

Films distributed by Mailuki Films

2025 Gallina