Gabriel de Varona
Directing
Biography
Gabriel de Varona is a Cuban-American filmmaker who specializes in creating genre blending films with dark humor, emotional heart, and the occasional supernatural element. He also works as a creative marketing producer and a freelance video editor. Born and raised in Miami, he lived in New York for ten years working as a camera operator and editor for public broadcasting stations. While a graduate student at Emerson college in Boston, Gabe worked as a teacher for college and high school film programs.
Known For
With a taxidermy parrot and pistol in hand, Praxi, breaks into the home of a mute spiritual guru who trapped his lover’s soul inside the parrot years ago. Praxi must convince the guru’s estranged daughter to guide her father in freeing his lover’s soul in this darkly comedic tale of love and the afterlife.
The Old Man and the Parrot
Former lovers Olivia and Hector meet at a bar after 30 years. They discuss memories of being stranded on an island while exiling to the States, on a raft, from Cuba. As they argue over the truth of events leading to a horrific act of survival, we flashback to the island in a Rashomon-style debate.
Love & Hunger
An office manager invites a psychic to help remove a sprit that haunts her warehouse, hard at work in the after life. As they connect with the spirit, they learn the dark truth behind his unresolved business and try to help him move on.
Overtime
Painter Jade has a rough night ahead of her. She'll have to deal with snooty critics, her manipulative friend, a knife wielding meth addict, and her drug dealer boyfriend.
Those Raw People
A Cuban-American documentarian rides out a hurricane at her parents’ house with her boyfriend. Tensions rise as she takes advantage of being locked in and attempts to interview her emotionally reserved father about his dark past in Cuba.
Hurricane Flora
An internet repairman and his son get called to the apartment of a reclusive author who believes his WIFI is sucking people into cyberspace for population control.
Static Panic
What's a babysitter to do when the kid she's sitting has an imaginary friend that's all too real?
Tippy
Unable to cope with the emerging free love movement of the late 1950's; Darian Heinz just might murder his unfaithful wife.
Honeymoon's Over
Two clueless virgins pop each others cherries without using a condom.