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.)

Marcelino

The Spanish movie Marcelino pan y vino (1955), directed by the Hungarian director Ladislao Vajda, was the first movie I ever watched - as far as my memory goes. I was probably as old as the main character Marcelino (in the picture) and I remember that I left the movie theatre in tears, hand in hand with my mother who had brought me there.

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.