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Fernando J. Morett Lopez is a film, television, and theatre executive producer born in México City.Graduated with honors cum laude in Communications from Universidad Iberoamericana (Ibero-American University) in 1972. From 1975 to 1978 he went to Stanford University to study a Ph.D. in Communications.

After the completion of his Ph.D., he joined Televisa in 1979 as Director of Special Projects until 1994. He began as the assistant to the VP of Fundación Cultural Televisa, where he produced many socially oriented Public Health campaigns, as well as the producer of the main morning show. He left that position when appointed executive producer for Plaza Sésamo, the Spanish version of Sesame Street.

From then on, he has been executive producer of Televisa’s high budget special shows, as "Los Cuentos de Cri-Cri", Francisco Gabilondo Soler an original production of VP Miguel Aleman starring Placido Domingo.

3rd TVyNovelas Awards for the telenovela Martin Garatuza.

From 1986 until 1994 he was Mexico’s leading Televisa’s theatre producer. Cats with 750 sold out performances inaugurated a new era for big musicals in Mexico. In those years he produced more than 60 plays. As independent entrepreneur he produced “Expreso Astral” ("Starlight Express") the musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber.

He was VP Communication and PR for SATMEX, the satellite Mexican company that oversaw the Mexican Satellite spectrum. Launching the SATMEX 5.

During his academic career, Fernando was named Chairman of the Department of Communications at Universidad Iberoamericana from 1979 until 1982. He was the leading researcher about the impact of alcohol advertising and alcoholism and thus invited to the World Health Organization in Geneve, Switzerland (WHO) as an expert in those fields.

Biography
Fernando Morett Lopez is known as a producer and showrunner of world-class television content, incorporating his academic and research skills overseeing obsessively each story from page to screen.

According to Televisa’s ratings, Los Cuentos de Cri Cri holds the record for the most watched television special in Mexico’s history, with over 80% of the population tuning in to watch.

Sold out productions of his include “Cats, Mexico” (the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical) with 750 sold out performances, and “Entre Mujeres”, an all women comedy that sold out performances for over 5 years.

In 1995 he launched Canal 40 or CNI where he developed and produced original programming that crafted a trademark in innovation.

For the last 7 years he has been developing “Misiones de Fuego”, 6 episodes for streaming television about the Jesuit Missionaries sage in Mexico. The most epic and heroic episodes in Latam history.

Actually, he is working the pre-production of “Crimen en la Basilica”, a film adaptation of the sold-out novel by Gerardo Huerta “La Desaparicion del Ayate”. Script adaptation by Sergio Aviles with Guillermo Arriaga.