Mark Meily

Mark A. Meily is a film director, producer and a film educator who started his career in the Philippines. He has directed campaigns for Procter & Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive, 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 was the chair of the Filmmaking program of the De La Salle-College St. Benilde in Manila. He became the Dean of the School of Design of iAcademy until 2019. In May 2019, his tenth feature, Maledicto, the first film produced by Fox International in the Philippines opened in cinemas. He now lives in San Francisco, California.

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

Personal life Mark is the older brother of actor, TV host, vlogger and comedian Bearwin Meily. His wife is the cinematographer Videlle "Lee" Briones-Meily, who had won the FAMAS Award for Best Cinematography for her work on the 2000 film Tanging Yaman.

Television In 2008, Meily directed the pilot week episode of Judy Ann Santos' Habang May Buhay. He also wrote episodes and directed all six-seasons of the Asian adaptation of the hit French Sit-Com Camera Café. The series won Best Comedy Series at the Asian Television Awards in Singapore. He also worked on the hit drama series Jasmine for TV5.

For his television work, he won numerous awards such as the Catholic Mass Media Award, the Anvil Award, and the Philippine Advertising Creative Guild Prize. He received several awards from the Philippine Advertising Congress.

Meily founded Spark Films, a pioneer in branded viral entertainment and together with CALT, France introduced the hit French sit-com Camera Cafe in Asia. The Asian adaptation of the series eventually won Best Comedy Program at the 2008 Asian Television Awards in Singapore.

Awards Year Award-Giving Body Category Work Result 2003 Metro Manila Film Festival Best Director Crying Ladies 2008 Baler