Mark Meily

Mark A. Meily is a multi-awarded film director, producer and a film educator who started his career in the Philippines. He has directed campaigns for Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola, DocuSign, and FICO. His feature films have been presented at the film festivals of Deauville, Hawaii, Seattle, Goteborg, Marrakech, Montreal, Busan, Fukuoka and Brussels. He is currently the chair of the Filmmaking program of the De La Salle-College St. Benilde in Manila.

Early life

Meily was born in the city of Manila, Philippines. He studied at the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts, the Mowelfund Film Institute., and at the Ecole Supérieure d'Etudes Cinématographiques as French Government Scholar.

Personal life

Meily took up Visual Communications at the University of the Philippines before studying film at Mowelfund in Manila and in Paris at l”ESEC as a French Government Scholar for cinema. He wrote and directed Crying Ladies and La Visa Loca. These films were shown and have won awards in many international film festivals from Montreal to Kerala. Crying Ladies received the NETPAC Award and the Best Director prize at the International Film Festival of Kerala, India. It had a theatrical run in the US and was positively reviewed by the New York Times, the LA Times, and the Village Voice.