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{{short description|Filipino film maker}}
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| image = File:Meily w- Camera.JPG▼
| birth_place = {{nowrap|[[Manila]], [[Philippines]]}}▼
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1967|8|18}}
| nationality = Filipino
▲| birth_place = {{nowrap|[[Manila]], [[Philippines]]}}
| birth_name = Edward Mark Afable Meily
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| spouse = Videlle Briones-Meily
| children = 4
| occupation = Film Directordirector, TV Commercialcommercial Directordirector
| education = {{ubl|[[University of the Philippines]]|[[Mowelfund Film Institute]]|[[École supérieure d'études cinématographiques]]}}
| filmographyyears_active = 1991–present▼
[[Mowelfund Film Institute]]
[[École supérieure d'études cinématographiques]]
▲| filmography = 1991–present
| notable_works = 2003 - [[Crying Ladies]]<br/>2005 - [[La Visa Loca]]<br/>2007 - [[Camera Café (Philippine TV series)|Camera Café]]<br/>2008 - [[Baler (film)|Baler]]<br/>
2010 - Donor<br/>2012 - [[El Presidente (film)|El Presidente]]
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'''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. OnIn 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|San Francisco, California]].
 
==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]].,<ref name="fprofile">Faculty profile, Asia Pacific Film Institute, June 2007.</ref> and at the Ecole Supérieure d'Etudes Cinématographiques as French Government Scholar.{{citation needed|date=August 2022}}
 
==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]]''.<ref>{{cite news|last=Cu-Unjieng|first=Philip|title=A mark-ed man|url=https://www.philstar.com/other-sections/starweek-magazine/2004/01/11/234798/mark-ed-man|access-date=March 20, 2024|work=[[The Philippine Star|Philstar.com]]|publisher=Philstar Global Corp.|date=January 11, 2004}}</ref>
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.
 
==Television==▼
His third film Baler won 10 awards at the Metro Manila Film Festival and was exhibited at the MoMA in New York in 2009. His television sit-com Camera Café won the Best Comedy Program at the Asian TV Awards in Singapore.
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 recently,also worked finishedon 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 is also the recipient of several awards from the [[Philippine Advertising Congress]].<ref name="fprofile"/>▼
 
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]].<ref name="fprofile"/>
His new film Donor won 5 awards at the 6th Cinemalaya Film Festival including Best Film in Manila. It also won the Grand Prize at the 30th Brussels Independent Film Festival . The film is in the official selection at the Pusan, Hawaii Goteborg, Seattle, Marrakesh International Film Festivals, and the Deauville Asian Film Festival.
 
He has taught film at the De La Salle University, the Marilou Diaz-Abaya Film Institute, and the Assumption College. He won the Palanca Literary Prize in 2001 and 2004. He was the chair of the Filmmaking program of the De La Salle-College St. Benilde in Manila.
 
In 2008, he co-founded Spark Digital Content, an interactive design studio and production company.<ref name="fprofile"/>
 
▲==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 recently, finished 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 is also the recipient of several awards from the [[Philippine Advertising Congress]].<ref name="fprofile"/>
 
==Writing==
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==Critical success==
Meily directed ''Crying Ladies'', his first feature film. The film won six (6) awards at the [[2003 Metro Manila Film Festival]] including Best Picture and Best Director. The film also received several nominations from different award-giving bodies in Philippines.<ref name="fprofile"/>
 
''Crying Ladies'' premiered in the [[United States]] and has received good reviews from the [[New York Times]], [[Los Angeles Times]], and [[The Village Voice]]. It has also been shown at the Montreal World Film Festival, Brussels Festival of Independent Cinema, Hamburg Film Festival, Newport Beach Film Festival, Dallas Asian Film Festival, Calcutta Film Festival, and Palm Springs Film Festival.<ref name="fprofile"/>
 
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The film received the NETPAC Award for Best Asian Film and awarded for Meily the Best Director prize at the International Film Festival of Kerala, India. It is also the Philippine entry to the Best Foreign Language Film at the [[Academy Awards]]. He directed ''Pasyon U.S.A.'' (commercial title: ''La Visa Loca''), a film largely based on his Palanca–prize winning screenplay ''Good Friday Archipelago''.<ref name="fprofile"/>
 
In December 2008, his third feature, ''[[Baler (film)|Baler]]'', topped the Metro Manila Film Festival garnering 11 awards and earning Meily his second Best Director trophy. ''Baler'', a historical epic drama set during the end of the war of Independence in the Philippines, was screened later on at the Far East Film Festival in Udine and was the opening film of the Indio Bravo Film Festival at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Meily also won another Best Director trophy at the PMPC Star Awards in 2009.{{citation needed|date=August 2022}} In the same year, Meily was tasked to direct an animated documentary about [[Imelda Marcos]] for [[Imee Marcos]]' Creative Media and Film Society of the Philippines (CreaM), with the working title ''Barefoot Beauty'', though it did not come to fruition.<ref>{{cite news|last=Ong|first=J. Vincent Sarabia|title=Year-starter edit with Mark Meily|url=https://www.philstar.com/lifestyle/supreme/2009/01/03/428480/year-starter-edit-mark-meily|access-date=March 20, 2024|work=[[The Philippine Star|Philstar.com]]|publisher=Philstar Global Corp.|date=January 3, 2009}}</ref>
 
Mark 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.{{citation needed|date=August 2022}}
 
==Awards==
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