Puzzle for a Blind Man

On October 24, Fernando participated in Bucharest as special background in the movie Puzzle for a Blind Man, directed by Andrei Zincă [photo] for Castel Film Studios.

The movie is an adaptation of Argentinian playwright Mario Diament's Blind Date.

Skoda Yeti

Yesterday, Fernando participated in the shooting of a TV commercial for the new Skoda model Yeti in Romania. The spot was conceived by Frank, produced by Saga Film and directed by Dobrivoie Kerpenisan.

Fernando's character is a weird bureaucrat eating kebab in a boring office, while in front of him there is an empty chair belonging to a colleague that is having fun somewhere else with his new Yeti car.

Belmar in Moldova

Surprisingly enough, few days ago, in the parking lot of a shopping center in Balti, the second largest town in the Republic of Moldova, I was able to see myself on an outdoor (below) promoting the mayonnaise Belmar, almost 2 years after I acted as a French cook for their TV spot.

Rama

On October 8th and 9th, Fernando participated in the shootings of four TV spots for the new Romanian campaign of the margarine Rama, directed by Andrei Cohn.









Fernando's character is called Fernando, a disastrous comic cook presented by the culinary expert Oliver Owen (the Irish actor Arthur O'Looney). Fernando's synthetic margarine always generates painful unexpected results, until Oliver himself decides to show how to make the real one.

Belmar

On September 29th 2008, Fernando participated in a spot directed by Igor Chirkov for the mayonnaise Belmar in the Republic of Moldova.

You may also want to watch the shorter version made for the special promotion:

UPC Romania

On March 12th and 13th, Fernando participated in the shooting of two TV spots for the new campaign of the cable communications company UPC Romania, produced by Saga Film and directed by Jonty Toosey (UK).

Fernando's character is a caricature of Cardinal Richelieu, the old-fashioned villain who is always fighting against the now modernized Three Musketeers, representing fixed-line telephony, Internet services and cable TV.

(In the picture, with actress Irina Munteanu.)

Zapp România

On October 22nd, Fernando participated in a TV spot for the new Romanian campaign of the telemobile network company Zapp, produced by Saga Film and directed by Andrei Cohn.

Fernando's character is a waiter who takes dozens of mobile phones abandoned on the table by a client (the actor Andrei Serban) and hurries up to give them back to him.

Cappy

On October 17th, Fernando participated in a TV spot for the fruit juice Cappy, produced in the Transylvanian Alps by Castel Film for a Turkish advertising agency.

The spot, which will be released in Turkey, depicts a peasant medieval community waiting with empty buckets for a magic cloud that, once arrived on a cart pulled by four black horses, is blown by their strongest fellow. Then the people have their buckets happily filled with all kinds of fruits.

Politia Româna

On August 23rd, Fernando participated as the main character in a social spot conceived for the Romanian Police and produced by Saga Film, directed by Mihai Sibianu.

The TV spot, which will also be seen on screen outdoors throughout Bucharest, is part of the campaign addressed to the Romanian drivers not to block the crossroads in the capital's main streets.

UniCredit

On July 4th, Fernando participated in a spot shot for the Romanian bank UniCredit Tiriac Bank, produced by Castel Film. The spot presented a happy family in two bumper cars through an amusement park. Fernando was the candy-man who offers cotton candy and lollipop to the children.

Vodafone Romania

On June 11th, Fernando participated in a spot shot for the Foundation Vodafone Romania, produced by Mitra Film for Odyssey Communication. The spot, called Vodafone Litere, presented characters who carried one huge red letter in Cismigiu park and around downtown streets in Bucharest. All characters together formed the word ZÂMBET (smile in Romanian). Fernando was assigned the letter B.

Véritable Petit Beurre

Fernando a participé, le 12 mars 2008, en réalisant l'interprétation d'un personnage, au tournage du nouveau spot publicitaire français pour le véritable petit beurre LU, dirigé par Denis Thybaud pour Cosa, Paris.

Spot on child prostitution

Fernando has just participated voluntarily in a social spot for a large campaign against child prostitution in Romania. The spot was conceived by Saatchi & Saatchi and produced by Saga Film for United Way. It will start to be screened this month in major cinemas throughout Romania.