Bernardo "Mernardo" Villela

About Me

Bernardo Villela's first film Suffer the Little Children has won four awards and been selected to 13 festivals worldwide (www.sufferproductions.com). Bernardo acquired rights to the Stephen King short story and guided until the final cut in November of 2005. Bernardo has also directed and edited seven short films at Stonestreet Studios, an affiliate studio of New York University. The films can be viewed here or at www.myspace.com/bernardovillela and range from dark and romantic comedy to drama, crime, magical realism and a psychological thriller. He was selected to direct a staged reading of a screenplay entitled "You Make Me Smile" for New York University's HotINK reading series and directed a staged reading of a feature-length screenplay he wrote entitled "The Reveillon." Bernardo has also recently branched out into the world of theatre acting as Associate Producer and Director at the Wilmington Drama League. He has also joined the Chrysalis Board of Directors . Bernardo recently directed a reading of his first play "Light Amidst the Darkness" (www.myspace.com/lightamidstthedarkness), based on a story by Lulu Lear, with the First Draft Writer's Circle. It is currently being considered for publication. Bernardo was hired to direct a television commercial for The Wilmington Drama League which will reach over 165,000 homes. In April a stage adaptation of "Peter and the Wolf" he wrote will premiere. He is currently in pre-production on a feature film.

My Interests

Writing, Art, Film, Screenwriting, Directing, Books, Theatre, Playwrighting, Editing

I'd like to meet:

Any of the people listed in ’heroes’ or who match that criteria.

Music:

All kinds but specifically:
The Beatles
Rolling Stones
Guns N’ Roses
Led Zeppelin
Madonna
Dragonforce
Hanson
Billy Gilman
Nirvana
Tokio Hotel
Kid Abelha
Cassia Eller
Toquinho
Vinicius
Tom Jobim
Luis Gonzaga
Gonzaguinha
Raul Seixas
Chico Buarque
Caetano Veloso
Gilberto Gil
Seu Jorge
Ana Carolina
Marisa Monte
Daniela Mercury
Gabriel O Pensador
Rita Lee
Edith Piaf
Billy Elliot
Wicked
Just So

Movies:

Directors/Producers:
Spielberg
Bergman
Truffaut
Hitchcock
Disney
Woody Allen
Malle
Chaplin
Rodriguez
Dario Argento
Movements and Styles:
The New Wave
Serials
Hungarian Cinema
Giallo
Films:
Artificial Intelligence: A.I.
Schindler’s List
Saving Private Ryan
Jurassic Park
Empire of the Sun
The Color Purple
E.T.
Indiana Jones
Jaws
Citizen Kane
Casablanca
Psycho
Sabotage
The Lady Vanishes
Spellbound
Rope
Dial M for Murder
Rear Window
Vertigo
Rebecca
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1933)
L’Annee Dernier a Marienbad
The Shining
Vivement dimanche!
La Chambre Verte
L’Argent de Poche
La Nuit americaine
L’Enfant Sauvage
La Mariee etait en noir
Jules et Jim
Le Souffle au Couer
Aurevoir les enfants
Vanya on 42nd Street
Les Mistons
Central do Brasil
The Sixth Sense
Peter Pan (2003)
Fanny och Alexander
Hastsonaten
Persona
Nattvardsgasterna
Sasom i en spegel
Smultronstollet
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Suspiria
Inferno
Cinema Paradiso
Angyali udvozlet
more to come

Television:

ALF
Seinfeld
I Love Lucy
Thundercats
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
Family Guy
Home Improvement
Pit Pony
Esplendor
Casseta e Planeta Urgente
You Can't Do That On Television
Saturday Night Live (when it was good)
The Kids in the Hall
Malcolm in the Middle
The X-Files
Everybody Loves Raymond
Murphy Brown
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Friends
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Oliver! my next WDL show

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Mechanical Boy from H.R. Pufnstuf (just because)

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Nicholas Hoult monologue on the British show 'Skins.'

Books:

Stephen King
Brian Lumley
H.P. Lovecraft
Clive Barker
J.K. Rowling
Christopher Rice
Sandor Marai
John Jakes

Theatre
Beckett
Ionescu
Chekhov
Strindberg
Rodrigues
Shaw
Wilde
Shakespeare
Ibsen (above all others)
CURRENTLY READING
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Heroes:

Stephen King
Brian Lumley
H.P. Lovecraft
Henrik Ibsen
Steven Spielberg
Robert Rodriguez
Ingmar Bergman
Woody Allen
Francois Truffaut
Orson Welles
Alfred Hitchcock
Walt Disney
Charlie Chaplin
William Wordsworth
Pablo Picasso
Salvador Dali
Edgar Allen Poe
C.S. Lewis
J.K. Rowling
Nelson Rodrigues
Guns N’ Roses
Led Zeppelin
Madonna
Tokio Hotel.
Anyone with an original voice and the tenacity to make it heard at all costs.

My Blog

Im directing a feature length play in a year...

And I've known for about a month and have been really excited since, however, it didn't feel real until I saw the above blurb listed on a season subscription form at the Wilmington Drama League'...
Posted by Bernardo "Mernardo" Villela on Fri, 02 May 2008 11:38:00 PST

50 Funniest Movies Ever Made -according to me and my brother-

The list may change as I improvised a last minute addition because on the hadwritten list I inserted one film twice. Also, this list reflects movies we can both agree on and our individual opinions m...
Posted by Bernardo "Mernardo" Villela on Fri, 02 May 2008 07:32:00 PST

2007 BAM Award Nominees and Winners

2007 BAM Nominees and Winners (Winners in Red and Pictured) Disclaimers: 1. These awards are fictitious and represent only my, Bernardo Villela's, opinions about the past year in film 2. BAM stan...
Posted by Bernardo "Mernardo" Villela on Thu, 27 Dec 2007 12:00:00 PST

Wilmington Drama League Commercial

So tonight, finally, came principal photography of the first ever commercial for the Wilmington Drama League in their 75 year history. I have been involved with this wonderful organization since ...
Posted by Bernardo "Mernardo" Villela on Sun, 21 Oct 2007 10:09:00 PST

My Article (published in 05)

First, I apologize that the scan is somewhat crappy. I may redo it later. This is an article I was asked to write shortly after completing "Suffer the Little Children," in August of '05. I was ...
Posted by Bernardo "Mernardo" Villela on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 09:01:00 PST

Ingmar Bergman

Today the world is a darker place than it was yesterday with the passing of Ingmar Bergman. To try and express in words what his films have meant to me would be futile. Beyond all other technical and ...
Posted by Bernardo "Mernardo" Villela on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:41:00 PST

That's a Wrap: Part IV

So this is the latest blog of them all and for good reason. On Friday I shot "Double Homicide," a hilarious short script from NYUs Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing (as are all four of the shots...
Posted by Bernardo "Mernardo" Villela on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 09:19:00 PST

That's A Wrap: Part III

The blogs are always late, as your probabbly noticed. I shoot on Friday get home exhausted sleep and am busy all day Sat. There's no photo to show because I didn't capture the footage. The capture did...
Posted by Bernardo "Mernardo" Villela on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 09:58:00 PST

That's a Wrap: Part II

Screen capture: Lisa (Alexandra Mauriello) enjoying a quiet day in Chelsea little does she know what lurks around the corner in Cake. OK, I know this one is coming late yet again but it was Easter Wee...
Posted by Bernardo "Mernardo" Villela on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 06:23:00 PST

That's a Wrap: Part 1

Target practice. Manny (Stephen Cirillo) tries to hit a can on Emma's (Ali Tobia) head. Will he hit it or her? So on Friday the first of my four short films, "Living Legends," I am shooting at Stonest...
Posted by Bernardo "Mernardo" Villela on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 03:10:00 PST