Hernan Aguilar

Hernan started his professional career in the entertainment industry when, at the age of 10, he performed in the historical Colon Theatre of Buenos Aires in a British production of the opera Peter Grimes by Benjamin Britten. After finishing the St. Andrew's Scotts School, he studied Business Administration in the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, and studied theater acting and directing with Martin Blanco for six years. Hernan acted in at least ten national TV commercial, played the saxophone, and was lead singer in a rock band before he went into film school. It was in famous director Eliseo Subiela's film school where he discovered his strongest passion: directing films. After film school he worked at different production companies, until he founded a production company and a dot-com with Sebastian Puenzo. After making music-videos, corporate videos, commercials and directing 8 short films, he moved to Hollywood, California. In Los Angeles, he studied Screenwriting and Cinematography at UCLA, directed TV commercials and music videos, edited feature films, worked as cinematographer in 35mm, 16mm, and video formats, got hired to write feature screenplays, and edited the movie Seven Days (2005) that won Best Picture at the Mexican Press Awards, and for which he was nominated for a Silver Ariel in the category Best Editing at the Mexican Academy Awards. Hernan wrote and directed his first feature film Madraza (2017) which won numerous international awards like a Best Film Award at the 2017 Sitges International Film Festival. Madraza was picked up by The Walt Disney Company and distributed by Buena Vista International, a major accomplishment for an independent first feature film.