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Gaby Tagliavini

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Gabriela Tagliavini is an award-winning writer/director who has helmed 9 feature films and several TV series. She has directed 5 successful #1 films (2 in the box-office in Mexico, 2 for Netflix and 1 for Amazon). She has worked as a writer/director for top companies like HBO, Netflix, Sony, Disney, Paramount +, Buena Vista, Starz, Voltage, Viacom, VH1, MTV, ABC, and Amazon. She directed celebrities like Sharon Stone, Eva Longoria, Kate Del Castillo, Freddie Prince Jr., Mike Tyson, Billy Zane, and Christian Slater.

Gabriela’s latest Netflix original movie CHRISTMAS WITH YOU launched #1 on Netflix in 26 countries and top 10 in 80 countries in 2022. She recently finished a new film called “Tequila Repasado” (“Undo and Redo”) that she directed for Sony Pictures. It premiered on Amazon Prime worldwide in Dec 2023 and became #1 on Amazon Prime Mexico.

Gabriela Tagliavini’s work had great box-office successes. Her Disney movie “Ladies’ Night” was #1 at the box office in Mexico in 2004, and her romantic comedy “How to Break Up with A Douchebag” opened #1 at the box office in Mexico in 2018, beating “Blade Runner 2”. Her Netflix original film, “Despite Everything” was #1 on Netflix in Spain in 2019.

For television, she was the creator and EP of a TV series for Amazon Studios, another for Sony TV Latam, and she sold a pitch to HBO, based on the prestigious novel "The Anatomist." Last year, she developed an original TV series created by her and produced by the multi-Grammy winner Marc Anthony for Paramount+. Recently, a new TV show she created was selected by the Ventana Sur competition organized by Netflix. And she directed the pilot and 4 episodes of the show “Casa Grande” sold by Warner Brothers and launched on Amazon Prime on May 1st, 2023.

For television, she was the creator and EP of a TV series for Amazon Studios, another for Sony TV Latam, and she sold a pitch to HBO, based on the prestigious novel "The Anatomist." Last year, she developed an original TV series created by her and produced by the multi-Grammy winner Marc Anthony for Paramount+. Recently, a new TV show she created was selected by the Ventana Sur competition organized by Netflix. And she directed the pilot and 4 episodes of the show “Casa Grande” sold by Warner Brothers and launched on Amazon Prime on May 1st, 2023.

Gabriela Tagliavini received a B.A. in film directing from the School of Superior Filmmaking in Argentina and an M.F.A. in screenwriting from the American Film Institute (AFI). She was a guest speaker at several events all over the country. Gabriela was selected for the Sundance Film Festival and WIF’s Women Initiative, was chosen as one of the 50 women who will change media and Entertainment and won the prestigious ABC directing fellowship program.