
Gabriel Medina
Directing
Biography
Gabriel Medina is an Argentinan filmmaker born in 1975 in Buenos Aires. 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).
Known For

After a devastating breakup, Vicky, almost 40, embarks on a quest for new love, unaware it will lead her to a profound—and hilarious—self-discovery.
Envious

Six teenagers witness a cosmic event that grants them special powers. With these new abilities, each one discovers the worst and the best of himself, while a journalist and a mysterious woman pursue them with unclear ends.
Buenos Aires Under The Orion Sky

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Horrible y Fascinante

Zapa is a locksmith in a remote and quiet little town, lost somewhere deep in the province of Buenos Aires. After getting involved in a crime, his uncle, a retired policeman, bails him out and gets him a spot to join the Provincial Police as an aspiring officer in the thick urban sprawl of Greater Buenos Aires' West Zone. Soon he will get involved in a new type of corruption.
El bonaerense

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 him trying to be helpful in his career and with women, only worsens the conflict.
The Paranoids

Refused to face his adulthood, a Casanova must deal with the fact that he has a young pregnant daughter from an earlier relationship.
Just Like Me

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Los mufas: suerte para la desgracia

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.
The Good Intentions

An architecture student is obsessed by his girlfriend. When she is invited to go alone to a party sponsored by her company, he becomes paranoid. He arrives at their place unexpectedly and finds a man hidden under their bed. He follows the man trying to find his name and occupation, along a night full of incidents and misunderstandings.
The Bottom of the Sea

This film follows the crisscrossed fortunes of, among others, a rock musician, a flight attendant, a dog walker with an alarming penchant for over-the-counter medication, and a cab driver, who doesn’t really care about his life spiralling out of control, as long as he can sit in his old Renault 12.
The Magic Gloves

A quadriplegic woman undergoes unusual treatment to regain her mobility and also gain other skills.
Biónica

Tensions rise when a doctor (Daniel Veronese) pressures his teenage son to follow in his footsteps.
The Third Side of the River

Two inseparable friends dream of escaping the monotony of their small Patagonian town and exploring the world. To fund their trip, they start selling marijuana, but what first seemed like a fun adventure soon turns into a spiral of danger and betrayal.
Verano Trippin

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?
The Christmas Snowman

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.
Overnight

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Román

A teenager goes to the foothills of the Andes to deal with his phobias.
The Vampire Spider

Documentary that revolves around the figure of Mario Arnedo Gallo, renowned folklore musician and composer –father of Diego Arnedo, bassist for Sumo y Divididos- born in Santiago del Estero in 1915, where he lived until moving to Hurlingham in 1947.
Aire de chacarera

A portrait of Gabriel Medina, director and screenwriter of "Los paranoicos" and "La araña vampiro". He tells us about his creative process and what he looks for when making movies.
El paranoico

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.