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Gaby Cruz

Film director
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    On-demand
  • Experience3-7 years
  • Response rate100%
  • Response time1 hour
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Berlin, Germany
Can work onsite in your office in
  • and around Berlin (up to 50km)
  • and around Freiburg im Breisgau (up to 10km)
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Gaby in a few words
Salvadoran filmmaker, Social Communicator graduated from the José Simeón Cañas Central American University (UCA), with a Master's degree in Documentary Film from the Escola de Cinema de Barcelona (ECIB) and the Central University of Catalonia (UVic). She has attended different workshops and film training courses in El Salvador and abroad. Between the years 2019–2021, she participated in the Artist Training Digital Basics FILM programs, Universität der Künste, Berlin, and the Babelsberg Konrad Wolf Film University (Germany).
In 2021, Programa Ibermedia funded the development of Gabriela’s feature film project “Jaula Canina” (Relativo Films, El Salvador), on which she serves as director and executive producer.
Gabriela co-directed and executive produced the feature film “Lienzo en Blanco”, a co-production with Olympusat (USA) for film distribution in the United States and Latin America. The film premiered internationally in 2022 at the Chicago Latino Film Festival (USA) and had theatrical distribution in El Salvador in February. To this moment “Lienzo en Blanco” has also been selected for the AFI Latin American Film Festival, LATAFF Toronto Latin American Film Festival and have two awards in the Icaro Central America Film Festival: Best Script and Best Art Direction in fiction feauture film.

She is slated as director of episodes of the series “Motel” of producer Fabricio Sibrián, whose development is funded by Programa Ibermedia (2023).
Experience
  • FUSALMO, UNICEF and Musician Without Borders
    Editor
    EDUCATION & E-LEARNING
    August 2022 - November 2022 (4 months)
    San Salvador, El Salvador
    Edit educational videos for teachers
  • Relativo Films
    Film director
    FILM & AV
    January 2022 - Today (2 years and 10 months)
    San Salvador, El Salvador
    Feature film “Jaula canina”: Lead the creative process: overseeing the writing process for the script, generating premises for its writing, hiring crew members, final cast, directing a teaser, in all phases of pre-production, production and post-production, etc. As Executive Producer, monitoring of the budget, creation of strategies to achieve co-productions.
  • Olympusat, Inc.
    Co-Director, Executive producer
    FILM & AV
    January 2020 - Today (4 years and 10 months)
    San Salvador, El Salvador
    Feature Film “Lienzo en blanco”: Co-director and Executive Producer. Through the Co-production with Olympusat Inc, in 2020, lead and monitor the post-production phase, (the international premiere was in April 2022, in Chicago, USA) and currently, monitor the distribution and marketing of the film.
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Education
  • M.A. Documentary Film
    Escola de Cinema de Barcelona
    2019