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Gabriela Tagliavini's "Ladies Night" distributed by Disney/Buena Vista was #1 movie in the box office in Mexico in 2004. Her movie won three MTV Movie Awards-Latin including: “Best Actress.” The film's soundtrack released by Sony Music went platinum. It was released in the U.S. in 2007.

For her feature directorial debut, "The Woman Every Man Wants" (aka "Perfect Lover"), Tagliavini was named Best Director at three International film festivals including the New York Independent Film Festival in 2001. The indie movie was an "Official Selection" of the Munich International Film Festival, The Film Festival of Mar del Plata (Argentina) among others 10 countries.

Tagliavini’s television film, the VIACOM/VH1/MTV/Maverick feature "30 Days Until I'm Famous," premiered on VH1. The film stars Sean Patrick Flanery, Mindy Sterling, Udo Kier and Carmen Electra and was executive-produced by Madonna.

The writer-director is armed with a Bachelors Degree in film directing and a Masters Degree in screenwriting from the American Film Institute (AFI). She is also a renowned author and has two novels published with critical acclaim - "The Colors of Memory" was published in Spanish and English.

In addition to directing several short-films, commercials and television pilots, Tagliavini worked as a writer for CNN. She won the prestigious 2006 ABC/DGA directing fellowship where she worked in shows like Disney Channel's "Hannah Montana" and "Desperate Housewives."

Also for TV, she directed a live show, "Comedy Rehab," that premiered in Comedy Central May 2009.

She worked on the film adaptation of the controversial novel "Without Men" and the best-seller novel "The Anatomist" for HBO Films.