Gabriel de Varona

Gabriel 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.

Gabe has been directing, writing, and producing his own award winning short films and helping produce other filmmakers’ projects for over a decade. In 2022 he founded his local Miami production company, Cocuyo Productions, and has made three short films under its LLC. He’snow ready to move into his first feature film with a story set in his hometown that explores his Cuban cultural roots through a fun genre film lens.