Biography

Fernando Lebrija, a Mexican-American filmmaker, born in Guadalajara Mexico. He completed a Masters in Fine arts in Film at the American Film Institute. Also a year of postgraduate studies in Screenwriting at UCLA in Los Angeles. Before starting making feature films, Fernando had a successful career as a Television Director-Producer, for big TV networks like Fox Sports, MTV, and Televisa Networks, he also directed a number of music videos, and many commercial campaigns. With his film directorial debut, "Amar a Morir" (2009) "Love till death", Fernando won and been nominated for multiple awards. Winning Best film debut Director in the Diosas De Plata Awards 2010 (Mexican Golden Globes), he also won the New Vision Award in the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Nominated best director in the The Imagen Awards in Los Angeles. Fernando's R rated comedy "Sundown" (2016), had a theatrical released in the US and Latin America by Pantelion (Lionsgate). Then he directed a Netflix Original movie called "#Realityhigh" (2017) with a worldwide released. Fernando Produced one of the top Box office record feature film in Spanish called "No Manches Frida 2", release in theaters in the US, grossing around the world close to 25 million dollars. Then he produced a few movies for Netflix "Se Busca Papa" (2020) "Dad Wanted" and "Sin Hijos" (2021) "One small problem". In Series he Executive produced and directed the Pilot episode and 2 more episodes of the HIT show "The key Game" for Amazon Prime and Pantaya. Fernando is developing more features and a TV series as we speak with his development company Cielo Content.
- IMDb mini biography by: Pablo Lebrija