Agustín Fernández (director)

Agustin Fernández Santana III, known professionally simply as Agustin, (born in Havana, Cuba, March 10, 1976), is an American film and television writer, director and producer.

Agustin's is known for EL VACILON: the movie (2003), GABRIEL (2008) and Falling Awake (2009). Is also the founder of Duende Films and Duende Media, both located in Universal City, California.

Agustin has won 8 Emmy Awards, 2 of them for directing, 2 as a writer,

Biography

Agustin was born in Havana, Cuba, at the age of 8 his family emigrated to Spain. Agustin spent his formative years traveling between family in Madrid and New York, where he began his artistic career in the New York Theater. Early on he was cast in several small roles in film and television. The two most memorable roles were his work in "Eduardo Machado's: Once Removed" and the movie based on the novel of Elmore Leonard, Gold Coast, directed by Peter Weller, Starring David Caruso.

Agustin's work was heavily influenced by his close friendship with the Brilliant character actor Victor Argo, who Mentored him until his death in 2004.

Agustin created the Emmy Winning Sketch Comedy show. "Agustin's El Vacilón", which featured Latino comedians and Wilmer Valderrama, Luis Guzmán, Casper Martinez, Elvis Crespo, Osvaldo Ríos, Zion y Lennox among others.

in 2014 Agustin had the honor to Executive Produced the Academy Award winning Documentary The Lady in Number 6, which tells the amazing story of Alice Hertz, the world's oldest pianist and holocaust survivor.

Agustin's biggest success came with the miniserie "Gabriel: Amor Inmortal", which received 8 EMMY nominations and won 6, including for writing, directing.

Gabriel: Amor Immortal Starred the Musical superstar Chayanne, with whom Agustin maintains a close friendship, as well as the Latin Music Icon José Luis Rodríguez (singer) "EL PUMA" and Angélica Celaya.

In 2014 Agustin had the opportunity to direct one of his idols in the film world the great actor, Martin Sheen.

Productions

Creator and director of the mini series Gabriel, counting with the participation of Chayanne, José Luis Rodríguez (singer) "El Puma", and Angelica Celaya. The mini series Gabriel won 6 Emmy awards.

Agustin owes much of his success to the Hispanic Media Mogul Raul Alarcon with whom he co-created the mini series Gabriel. Raul and Agustin have collaborated on several projects and the CEO and founder of Spanish Broadcasting System, has been and continues to be Agustin's closest friend and Business Mentor.

Director of some specials that won Emmy awards including the following: Celia Cruz, Ricky Martin, John Leguizamo, Shakira.

Director of the film " El Vacilon The Movie " being the highest grossing comedy in Spanish in 2005. He was the creador de Agustin's El Vacilon in Mega TV. Was the director of the IFC film "Falling Awake" with the performances of Jenna Dewan and Nestor Serrano, directed of the film "Badge of Honor" with Martin Sheen.

Awards

Documentaries directed by Agustín of the life of Celia Cruz, Shakira, Ricky Martin and John Leguizamo won Emmy Awards, winning Agustin 2 awards as director and 2 as producer.

Agustín won 6 Emmy awards with the "Gabriel:amor inmortal" mini series, including 3 awards as director, writer and producer.

Creator of "Agustin's El Vacilón" for Mega TV which won an Emmy award as writer, in this show he worked with Wilmer Valderrama, Luis Guzmán, Elvis Crespo, Zion & Lennox, Steven Bauer y Osvaldo Ríos.

Agustin won the Oscar award to "The best short documentary" with The lady in number 6 as executive producer.

External links

• https://www.mediamoves.com/2008/03/sbs-branches-out-into-film.html
• http://globenewswire.com/news-release/2015/05/22/738607/10135681/en/SPANISH-BROADCASTING-SYSTEM-DUENDE-FILMS-CLOSE-ON-A-25-MILLION-DOLLARS-FILM-SLATE-WITH-FUNGLODE.html