Fabio Golombek

Fabio Golombek is an award winning Brazilian-American producer and director who has overseen development and productions at FJP Productions since 2002. As president of FJ Productions, he coordinates a number of programs such as The Hollywood News Report TV (HBO and syndication), As Últimas de Hollywood and Sonywood News (SONY Entertainment), Hollywood Buzz (TNT) and Hollywood Uncut (Globosat +). He has also been the senior producer of the award winning show Planeta Brasil (TV Globo International) since 2003.

He has previously produced such shows as Shape Up (Fox Latin), Shop the World (SCG), Zen Zone (Sportv) and Hollywood News in 3D (Sky and Orange). Since 2010, he has produced Bed and Breakfast (Marcio Garcia dir.) which is distributed by PlayArt and Green Apple starring Dean Cain and Juliana Paes, Man Camp (Brian Brightly dir.) distributed by H2O and VMI with Mariel Hemingway, Dean Cain and Fernanda Machado. He also co-produced Open Road (Marcio Garcia dir.) distributed by Universal Pictures with Camilla Belle, Andy Garcia and Juliette Lewis.

His recently works as a producer include: Like Sunday, Like Rain (written and directed by Frank Whaley) with Leighton Meester, Debra Messing and Billie Joe Armstrong which is distributed by Monterey and VMI), Experimenter (Michael Almereyda dir.) that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival (2015) with Peter Sarsgaard and Winona Ryder distributed by Magnolia and Bleiberg and Breaking Through (written and directed by John Swetnam) and distributed by Voltage and Xlrator. Through FJ Productions, Fabio continues to work in the development of feature films and documentaries including El Camino (written by Ted Melfi), Exile (written by Rachel Caine and directed by Tom Provost), Hotel Everest and Designated Citizen.

Fabio has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from FAAP, a Masters Degree in Radio and TV from San Diego State University and a B.A. in Social Communications (Cinema Studies) from the School of Arts and Communications at the University of Sao Paulo, in Brazil. In 1983, after graduating from college, he worked as assistant director on soap operas at Bandeirantes TV and later as a director at JPO Productions being responsible for a number of programs produced for local networks. Upon moving to Los Angeles in 1990, he worked on a number of feature films such as Startime, Killer Tomatoes Eat France, People Under the Stairs. In 1995 he co-founded Pacific Factory Entertainment and start to work with sports channels in the US (ESPN and ABC) and Brazil (SBT and Record TV), producing the IndyCar series, World Cup of Soccer and the Olympic Games, aside from several magazine format shows such as Shape Up (Fox Sports), Zona Zen (Sportv), Road to the Olympics (Directv) and others. In 2002 he founded FJ Productions to focus on entertainment shows and scripted programming.

Fabio is a member of the Producers Guild of America (PGA), IDA and NALIP.

References

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