Fernando Sariñana
Fernando Sariñana is a Mexican film and television writer, producer and director.
Works
The Rookie
Starting over isn't easy, especially for small-town guy John Nolan who, after a life-altering incident, is pursuing his dream of being an LAPD officer. As the force's oldest rookie, he’s met with skepticism from some higher-ups who see him as just a walking midlife crisis.
Release Date2018-10-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count2528
Jane the Virgin
A comedy-drama following a chaste young woman who is accidentally impregnated via artificial insemination as she struggles to inform her devoutly religious family and make the right choices concerning the child. Based on the telenovela "Juana la virgen."
Release Date2014-10-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count3
Vote Count866
Atypical
Sam, an 18-year-old on the autism spectrum, takes a funny, yet painful, journey of self-discovery for love and independence and upends his family.
Release Date2017-08-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count1139
Daughter from Another Mother
After realizing their babies were exchanged at birth, two women develop a plan to adjust to their new lives: creating a single —and peculiar— family.
Release Date2021-01-20
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count27
Vote Count1246
The War Next-door
When two antagonistic families end up living next door in a posh neighborhood, the matriarchs ensue a full-scale war of unintended consequences.
Release Date2021-07-07
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Vote Count267
Diary of a Future President
Told from the narration of her diary, 12-year-old Cuban-American Elena navigates the ups and downs of middle school and begins her journey to become the future president of the United States.
Release Date2020-01-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count49
Love Hurts
Family and friends try to sabotage the budding romance between a young upper class girl and a humble student.
Release Date2002-11-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count332
Erotica: Moonlight
These three stories are about sex, relationships and fantasy. A couple in their 30's is looking to satisfy their sexual fantasies, so they invite a nurse to join them for a threesome. A nurse falls in love with the wrong man, an old doctor friend. A young kid meets a troubled girl outside a club.
Release Date2008-12-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count22
Todo el poder
Gabriel is a filmmaker in Mexico City, where he is a victim of crime and violence sometimes even three times a day. This is a black comedy that shows the extreme situation Mexico City is suffering as far as crime is concerned, and the tension the city and it's inhabitants live day after day.
Release Date2000-01-21
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count31
A second Chance
Julia and Moises fell in love and got married when they were young, idealistic, and passionate; now in their 30s, their marriage has cooled and their lives have sunken into the mediocrity they had sought to avoid. This realization inspires a quest to regain the lost dreams of their youth, which is complicated when a handsome student begins to pursue Julia. She begins an affair with the fiery young activist that may just put the excitement back into her marriage. This is a funny and insightful exploration of the intricacies of relationships, love, and idealism, and Jesus Ochoa as Moises turns in a stellar performance.
Release Date2001-04-05
DepartmentProduction
JobCo-Producer
Vote Count26
Charm School
Defiant 18-year-old Adela León pushes her father and an unbending headmistress to the limit in this delicious comedy.
Release Date2007-03-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count138
Deep Crimson
Driven by desire and desperate for self-love, Coral and Nicolás will abandon their past lives in a journey surrounded by murder.
Release Date1996-09-09
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count42
Cero y van cuatro
Four stories... one city. A dark comedy about crime in the big city: EL TORZON - two friends are smoking grass in their car, when they're caught by a corrupt Judicial Police Officer; VIDA EXPRESS - a wealthy businesswoman is kidnapped and her deadbeat husband has to come up with the money; BARBACOA DE CHIVO - an angry mob mistakes a college professor with a burglar and decide to lynch him in front of the church; COMIDA PARA PERROS - a bumbling thief tries to rob a restaurant
Release Date2004-12-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count47
Sex, Love And Other Perversions II
The private, the forbidden and the obscene. Eight short stories to be moved, surprised and have fun. Three different views about relationships, love, sex; three directors will take you from comedy to drama and backford, from the story of an old lady with cancer having a love affair to the love between two teenagers who try to make love for the first time or to the burning desire of a cop who is bewitched by cupid.
Release Date2006-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count7
Mom Went On Vacation
A husband has to take care of his four children while his wife takes a vacation away from the family
Release Date2019-09-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count44
Never Too Young to Dream
A group of kids have a dream: to play a football championship and to win. Their dream is going to be fulfilled by Don Pepe, an old guy with lots of expectations for his kids.
Release Date2001-07-27
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count30
Loco Love
A young man and woman fall in love but are threatened to be torn apart by the tensions between their Latino and Caucasian communities in Arizona.
Release Date2017-07-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count23
Dark Cities
Adapted by writer/director Fernando Sariñana from the stories by Juan Madrid, Ciudades Oscuras (Dark Cities) tells a story of interwoven lives in the seedy underbelly of Mexico City. The several different story lines concern hooker Lola (Dolores Heredia); her drug addict son Fede (Diego Luna); her friend Zeze (Zaide Silvia Gutierrez); Zeze's daughter Susana (Jimena Ayala); and junkie Vicente (Roberto Sosa). Also on the scene are two corrupt cops (Alejandro Tommasi and Jesus Ochoa) and one good cop (Odiseo Bichir), while Chicken (Hector Suarez) and Casimiro (Alonso Echanove) each tell their separate stories to the same bartender (Demian Bichir). ~ Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi
Release Date2002-09-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count6
Recipes to Stay Together
"Cilantro y perejil" is a comedy about couples from the same family, hit by the economic crisis in Mexico. The plot turns around the eternal question of whether it is worth it to live as a couple. The conclusions are fun, unpredictable and very human. After ending a ten-year marriage, Carlos and Susana try to fall in love with other people without success. As the days go by, Carlos realizes that without Susana he is unable to do many things, including distinguishing cilantro from parsley.
Release Date1996-12-31
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count12
Amor Xtremo
Two brothers travel from Mexico City to Las Vegas for the U.S. Motocross Open.
Release Date2006-08-01
DepartmentProduction
JobCo-Producer
Vote Count8
Vintage Model
Life unravels when famous radio talk-show host Carmen (Sylvia Pinal) discovers she has just months to live. To tie up the loose ends of her life, she hires a chauffeur to drive her around Mexico City and visit her old haunts. But he does far more than that; instead, he gives her life a much-needed spark and shows her the road to happiness. Alonso Echanove and Raul Araiza Jr. co-star.
Release Date1992-09-04
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count5
Hasta Morir
A street kid's wish to run away to Tijuana is hampered by lies and betrayal
Release Date1994-06-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count8
Los Fabulosos 7
In this story, a musical group whose music sets the mood for Events, finds itself at a very crucial moment in its carreer. All of the members face the dilemma of fighting for their dreams or quitting forever.
Release Date2013-11-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count4
Spam
Tobias, a maladjusted young high-school student, must use his investigative skills to stop a deadly supernatural chain started by one of his school friends, Lucia, before death reaches them.
Release Date2008-10-24
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenstory
Vote Count6
Enemigos íntimos
Tells the stories of eight characters suffering from different ailments: a doctor who does not acknowledge his homosexuality, a woman who refuses to accept that she is growing old, a mute nurse, a failed writer, an autistic child, a young pregnant woman and an adolescent in a coma, who are linked together by the fact that one of them, Guillermo is diagnosed with a malignant tumor in his kidney.
Release Date2009-08-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count5
Yerbamala
Jesús Andrade, a young thug, has decided to rob a stagecoach. At the time of the robbery he realizes that this is one of many stagecoaches of Governor Francisco Carreño and without giving enough importance he continues to theft, then suddenly he falls in love.
Release Date2014-08-14
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count2