- Born
- Nicknames
- Franco
- Campos-Lopez
- Frankie
- Canyon Creek
- Height6′ 0¾″ (1.85 m)
- American filmmaker born in southern Chile from Jewish Sephardic Spaniard descends. Francisco started creating films at an early age encouraged by his parents. At the age of 18, moves to Buenos Aires, Argentina, to pursue a filmmaker career and study film-making courses. During that phase he is mentored by the masters in Argentinean films from that era, in areas such as directing, editing, cinematography and acting directing, It was a time of many films in the early stage of digital film-making and High Definition Formats. His worldwide shown film "Acassis" (Best Thriller at the New York Film Festival 2007) creates a chance for him to come to the US and shape up his skills further. The New York press proclaimed him as "A Director to Watch". Before his feature film debut "I Did Her Wrong" in 2017, he worked intensively as a music video director and freelance director all around the world, mainly based in the US. Those travels created a big impact on Francisco, getting him exposed to raw realities and social/environmental conflicts. The internal outcome of these journeys was a new passion for documentary film as well, combing cinematic aesthetics to narrate reality.
His feature film debut, the independent drama "I Did Her Wrong" based in Shakespeare's "King Lear" gave him praises in the film festivals circuit in Sweden and the Best Director Award at the Philadelphia Independent Film Awards for his impeccable acting directing. Francisco runs with his wife the film company Magen Entertainment developing a slate of films (both fiction and documentary), TV ads and marketing campaigns.
- IMDb mini biography by: Betsy Lundgren
- SpouseKyoko Ruch(September 10, 2015 - present)
- His Red Cap
- Thick accent.
- He wears glasses.
- He appeared as an extra in Sangre Eterna, a Chilean film.
- He received his first award in the US, 'Best Thriller Award' for the film 'Acassis' at the New York International Independent Film Festival, wearing a satchel, honoring one of his idols: Indiana Jones.
- The Director of the film "Nueve Reinas" (Nine Queens), deceased Argentinian Fabian Bielensky was one of his mentors while Francisco was based in Buenos Aires.
- He met the actor Patricio Contreras at a Chilean Embassy recepcion in 2003, that encountered changed his life. They partnered up for Campos-Lopez's early films.
- He likes to do his own camera work.
- My first gig was volunteering at the DC Film Festival as a ticket cutter. I had recently won the Best Thriller award at the New York International Independent Film Festival for my film Acassis, and then I found myself doing a volunteer job in DC, saying 'Enjoy the show' to directors who were in a position I would kill to be in.
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