ABOUT

DEAN COLIN MARCIAL is an international filmmaker in New York and Manila. 

In 2010, he co-founded CALAVERA USA, an award-winning Brooklyn production company whose credits include ALL THAT I AM (SXSW '13 - Special Jury Prize for Ensemble Acting, NHFF '13 - Best Feature, FilmBuff), FISHTAIL (Tribeca '14, Big Sky '15 Vision Award, Netflix), and YEARBOOK (Sundance '14, 25+ Jury Prizes, 100+ festivals, The New Yorker). 

Dean was awarded the 2015 Made in NY Media Fellowship by the New York City Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment. He was a recipient of the 2017 Tribeca All Access Grant for his screenplay THE GREEN GUERRILLAS and was shortlisted for the Russo Brothers Fellowship at the 2018 Slamdance Film Festival.

In 2021, he was awarded the Jerome Foundation NYC Film/Video Production Grant. In 2023, he participated in Berlinale Talents and was awarded the Purin Pictures Production Grant. He was born in the Philippines, raised in Long Island, and graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.