Fernando Díaz

Fernando Diaz, Argentine producer, director and screenwriter. With an extensive career in the field and with more than 50 national and international awards. Founder of MACHACO FILMS SRL, an Argentinean company dedicated to audiovisual production and direction with a vocation for international co-production. With more than 10 years of experience. In the last years he stands out in horror films, producing international hits such as "Terrified" by Demian Rugna "which toured the most important fantastic film festivals in the world and became an emblem of genre cinema and " When Evil Lurks" also directed by Demian Rugna, with its World Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival 2023 (TIFF), and which was the first Latin American film to win the award for best film at the International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia 2023 (Sitges). Awarded in more than 20 festivals, to date it has accumulated more than 340,000 spectators in Argentina, obtaining the record of being the most watched Argentinean horror film in the history of Argentinean cinema. Successfully released and acclaimed in the USA, Latin America, Europe and Asia. It also produced " Bad Light" by Juan Schmidt, "A World for Julius" by Rossana Díaz Costa co-production with Peru and Spain on the work of the same name by Alfredo Bryce Echenique, "Bad Life" Mad Crampi and Fernando Díaz, among others. MACHACO FILMS is currently developing several projects in co-production with Uruguay and Spain and is always looking to collaborate with new co-productions and strategic partners in Ibero-America.