Gabriel Medina

Gabriel Medina

Birth : 1975-01-01, Buenos Aires, Argentina

History

Gabriel Medina was born in 1975 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied at the San Telmo Film University where he was a classmate of Mariano Llinás, Damián Szifron and Jazmín Stuart. In 1998 he graduated as a film director. His first feature film as a director was Los paranoicos (2008).

Profile

Gabriel Medina

Movies

Overnight
Writer
Ignacio embarks on a trip driven by the coincidences that bring together the news that his young girlfriend is pregnant and an invitation to a seminar in Chile almost simultaneously.
The Good Intentions
Sami
An aging slacker finds his comfortable status quo and family dynamic disrupted when his ex-wife and her current partner decide to move from Argentina to Paraguay and take his children with them.
Los áridos
A man and a woman set out to cross the desert of Argentina on foot.
Román
Writer
The Christmas Snowman
Associate Producer
After wishing for the perfect man, a woman awakes to discover her new handsome neighbor is actually the snowman she built the day before, who has now come to life. But when she awakes on Christmas morning, he is gone and the snowman is back. Could it all have been a dream?
Intervened Events
Director
The omnibus feature SUCESOS INTERVENIDOS consists of shorts by a who’s who of Argentine documentary and experimental-film giants, including Edgardo Cozarinsky and Gustavo Fontán but also Claudio Caldini, Andrés Di Tella and Gabriela Golder. Each one of them created a piece of a few minutes in length using archival footage from SUCESOS ARGENTINOS (“Argentine Events”), a popular newsreel series from 1938 to 1972 whose episodes have recently begun to be digitized by Buenos Aires’s “Pablo C. Ducrós Hicken” Film Museum.
The Third Side of the River
Continuity
Tensions rise when a doctor (Daniel Veronese) pressures his teenage son to follow in his footsteps.
The Third Side of the River
Writer
Tensions rise when a doctor (Daniel Veronese) pressures his teenage son to follow in his footsteps.
The Vampire Spider
Writer
A teenager goes to the foothills of the Andes to deal with his phobias.
The Vampire Spider
Director
A teenager goes to the foothills of the Andes to deal with his phobias.
The Paranoids
Writer
Luciano works in birthday parties and writes his first feature when friend Manuel returns from Spain to repeat his TV show, "The Paranoids", together with his girl Sofia. Manuel is everything he is not and his trying to be helpful in his career and with women, only worsens the conflict. When Manuel leaves Sofia with Luciano for two days, she is seduced by the qualities Manuel rejects in his friend as weaknesses. Sofia changes. Luciano also, but only at the last moment he can overcome the fears he has been cultivating his whole life.
The Paranoids
Director
Luciano works in birthday parties and writes his first feature when friend Manuel returns from Spain to repeat his TV show, "The Paranoids", together with his girl Sofia. Manuel is everything he is not and his trying to be helpful in his career and with women, only worsens the conflict. When Manuel leaves Sofia with Luciano for two days, she is seduced by the qualities Manuel rejects in his friend as weaknesses. Sofia changes. Luciano also, but only at the last moment he can overcome the fears he has been cultivating his whole life.
El bonaerense
Assistant Director
Zapa is a locksmith in a quiet and little town lost somewhere in the province of Buenos Aires. The work is quite slow, and hours seem to pass slowly. Polaco, the owner of the shop, sends him on a job that consists of opening a safe at an office. The next day, Zapa is imprisoned for being responsible of robbing the place. Ismael, his uncle, a retired policeman, bails him out and sends him to Buenos Aires. Zapa becomes an aspiring officer in the Buenos Aires Police. He gets to his new home city, takes the instructional course, works at a precinct, has a love affair with a teacher and starts to see his life turn into a strange fiction.
Biónica
Writer