Biography

Gianfranco is one of five selected finalists as part of the 2023 HBO Short Film Award for his work on "Jerome" and selected as winner of the inaugural Fiip the Script Short Film Fund for emerging bipoc filmmakers. Gianfranco earned an MFA in Directing from the AFI Conservatory.

Gianfranco is a Boston native, where he grew up quick before leaving to serve a two year ecclesiastical mission in Italy. Upon his return he married and had kids, and just as quickly divorced - his focus shifting to his two children. Gianfranco's work explores wrought relationships stifled by the weight of responsibility, purpose, and uncertainty, and notwithstanding, remain together. Often representing characters of diverse backgrounds, Gianfranco believes that culture and race should be integral to a character's identity, but always second to story.

- IMDb mini biography by: Gianfranco Fernández-Ruiz