Mariano Fernández

Producer – Director
He studied at the Avellaneda Institute of Cinematographic Art and the Argentine School of Naturalists.

With over 20 years of experience working as a production manager, production director, and producer of feature films and series, in recent years he has focused his work on wildlife and conservation documentaries, having participated in several expeditions for the National Geographic Pristine Seas project in Uruguay, Chile, and Argentina; in productions for National Geographic Impact Story Lab and Japanese Public Television NHK; as well as in the documentary series Carnival of Life (PBS) and Wild Argentina (NatGeo/WDR/ORF/ARTE). As a director and screenwriter, he has produced the conservation documentaries Pescadores & Guitarras (2026, 1×28´) and SEI, la ballena desconocida (2025, 1×30´), the documentary series Pumas de la Estepa (2023, National Geographic, 4×48´), the fiction web series Crónicas Ferreteras (2018, UN3TV, 13×7´), and the biblical football western feature film El Hijo de Dios (2016, INCAA, 90´).

As a producer, he has created the documentary series Heroes of Conservation (2019, Natgeo, 2 x 45′), the two-part photography documentary The Real Image (2025, 73′) and The Holy Image (2025, 72′), as well as the rockumentary Lightning in the Darkness (2014, 104′).

He has worked on more than 20 national and international feature films, including the Oscar-winning The Revenant by Alejandro G. Iñárritu (2015), award-winning Mexican feature films such as Rojo by Benjamin Naishtat (2017), and television series such as Lynch for Fox Latin America (2012). He has also appeared in more than 50 international commercials, primarily for the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Spain, and France.