Felipe Vargas Ferrufino

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Also Known As Felipe Vargas

Felipe Vargas Ferrufino

Biography

Felipe Vargas is a Writer/Director/Editor who was born in Colombia and grew up in Florida, inspired by Latin American magical realist writing and an implacable consumption of movies. Felipe attended USC film school, and has interned at Showtime Networks, Blumhouse Productions, KDC Films, Annapurna Pictures, and Lionsgate Entertainment. He was the director and writer of two of the four greenlit USC Thesis projects in 2019, including the horror-fantasy film "Milk Teeth." Felipe was selected to co-direct a USC feature horror adaptation of "Phantom of the Opera," with backing from John Wells. With a passion for Latin American stories and mythology, Felipe is in development on a Mexican fantasy-adventure series with Norman Lear's production company ACT III. Felipe's fantasy short film "The Guide" premiered on DUST in 2019, where it garnered 3.4+ million views - it is among the ten most viewed films on the platform. His experimental sci-fi film "Grapefruit & Heat Death!" was recently acquired by DUST as well and will premiere in 2020. Felipe's Florida-focused short films "Summer's End" and "Vessel" were both broadcast nationally on PBS. Felipe is also a socially-conscious documentary editor - his last doc "Breaking Their Silence" (2018) was featured on CNN, TEDx, KTLA and The Today Show. He is editing a new documentary feature uncovering a school board conspiracy in the South. His work has been featured in over thirty-five festivals and was an official selection at Newport Beach, Chattanooga, Sarasota, Fort Meyers, and HollyShorts Film Festivals, among others.

Known For

Director

Leprechaun

as Director

2024
Hive

as Director

2024
Rosario

as Director

2024
ZZZ

as Director

2024
Carnivora

as Director

2020
2020
Milk Teeth

as Director

2020
12 Days of Christmas

as Second Unit Director

2019
In Another Place

as Director

2018
The Guide

as Director

Writer

2024
Hive

as Screenplay

2024
ZZZ

as Writer

2020
Afterimages

as Writer

Editor

2019

Crew

2020
Grapefruit & Heat Death!

as Special Effects

Producer

2019
In Another Place

as Producer

Sound

2020
Grapefruit & Heat Death!

as Sound Designer

Camera

2018
Summon a Fiend

as Second Assistant Camera