Gerardo Oñate

Cuervo Rey Films
Actor, Director, Producer and Screenwriter

Mexico City, Mexico

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August 2017

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About Gerardo

Born in Mexico City, 1986. He worked in international human rights, radio, and TV before training as an actor at Kennedy Brown Acting Community, Alexander Techworks, and Casazul. He has appeared in over 20 short films (7 of which he has also co-written and co-produced) and 7 movies (3 of them as a lead, and one of those 3 as a screenwriter and producer). He co-founded Wuka Freelance Filmmakers, a collective of independent story-tellers, and Cuervo Rey Films, with which he has now produced his first project not only as screenwriter, producer, actor, but also as director.

Gender:
Male

Height:
5' 10"

Weight:
165

Body type:
Average

Hair:
Short

Hair color:
Brown

Eyes:
Green

Ethnicity:
Other

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Noche de Viernes (2016)
Film (Short) Actor On a Friday night with your friends, would you like to hear from one of them the most incredible story of your life?
Cucarachas (2016)
Film (Action and Short) Actor A few hanged over junkies get visited by their debt collector, someone with whom they will have to deal somehow in order to live or even continue sleeping.
Donde Nunca Morirás (2015)
Film (Short) Actor Diana is a dreamer and a painter, after the murder of a journalist she meets Leo, another young journalist who finds it impossible to exercise his professional ethics. Both inevitably end up plunging into the rough and limited world of journalism.
Balthazar's Marvelous Afternoon (2015)
Film (Short and Drama) Actor Balthazar's Marvelous Afternoon is a short story written about a 30 year old carpenter who makes bird cages as a hobby . He has a girlfriend named Ursula ("wife") who he has been unmarried to for 4 years and no children. Balthazar makes a beautiful cage which is publicaly admired and considered his best piece of work . Many people are interested in the cage but Balthazar remains loyal to the customer that originally ordered it . It turns out the the person who ordered the cage was a 12 year old boy and his parents were unaware that he ordered it . The parents refused to pay for it and the boy had a fit . Instead of taking the cage , Balthazar gave it to him for free . He left the boys and his family's house and someone asked him how much he got for it . He responded "sixty pesos" . Then he went out and got drunk for the first time and bought everyone drinks celebrating his 60 pesos that he was never given . The story ends with him looking dead lying on the street drunk . Written by Lea Saunders