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George Vincent Gilligan Jr. (born February 10, 1967) is an American writer, producer, and director. He is known for his television work, specifically as creator, head writer, executive producer, and director of Breaking Bad and its spin-off Better Call Saul. He was a writer and producer for The X-Files and was the co-creator of its spin-off The Lone Gunmen.
Both Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul have received widespread critical acclaim, with Gilligan winning two Primetime Emmy Awards, six Writers Guild of America Awards, two Critics' Choice Television Awards and Producers Guild of America Awards, one Directors Guild of America Award and a BAFTA. Outside of television, he co-wrote the screenplay for the 2008 film Hancock.
Gilligan was born in Richmond, Virginia, the son of Gail, a grade school teacher, and George Vincent Gilligan Sr., an insurance claims adjuster. His parents divorced in 1974 and he and his younger brother, Patrick, were raised in Farmville and Chesterfield County, and attended the laboratory school run by Longwood College. Growing up, Gilligan became best friends with future film editor and film title designer Angus Wall. His interest in film began when Wall's mother, Jackie, who also taught alongside Gilligan's mother, would lend her Super 8 film cameras to him. He used the camera to make science fiction films with Patrick. One of his first films was entitled Space Wreck, starring his brother in the lead role. One year later, he won first prize for his age group in a film competition at the University of Virginia.
Jackie would take Wall and Gilligan to Richmond and drop them off at Cloverleaf Mall to see films, and encourage both of them to pursue a career in the arts. "I wouldn't be where I am today if it wasn't for Jackie. She was a wonderful lady and a real inspiration," he recalls. Gilligan was recognized for his talents and creativity at an early age. George Sr. described him as a "kind of a studious-type young man, and he liked to read, and he had a vivid imagination". He introduced Gilligan to film noir classics, as well as John Wayne and Clint Eastwood Westerns on late-night television. Gilligan won a scholarship to attend the prestigious Interlochen Center for the Arts. After eighth grade, he moved back to Chesterfield to attend high school.
After graduating from Lloyd C. Bird High School in 1985, Gilligan went on to attend NYU's Tisch School of the Arts on a scholarship, receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in film production. While at NYU, he wrote the screenplay for Home Fries; Gilligan received the Virginia Governor's Screenwriting Award in 1989 for the screenplay, which was later turned into a film. One of the judges of the competition was Mark Johnson, a film producer. He was impressed by Gilligan, saying he "was the most imaginative writer I'd ever read".- Fábio Mendes is a multimedia writer, born in São Paulo, living in Rio de Janeiro who loves to write comedy and drama for TV, Videos On Demand, Theatre and films.
He has worked for major players such as Globo TV, Amazon Prime Video, GNT and Multishow.
Mendes started his artistic career as an actor, on theatre. He started writing professionally when he won a Contest Award for the first piece he ever did: "Flyer", an underground screenplay for a featured film.
Mendes worked as one of the writers of "Rules of the Game" by João Emanuel Carneiro, at Globo TV, nominated for the International Emmy® Award, on the category "Telenovela".
In 2007, Mendes was part of the creation team of "Alice", an original series created for the Brazilian branch of the HBO Latin America.
On the same year, Mendes created, wrote, directed and produced "The Messenger", a 5 episodes web-series, a doc-drama about Chico Xavier, Brazil's greatest spiritualist leader, made for the American Spirit Foundation (AKES).
On theatre, he won 2 Critics'Choice Awards, in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, as Best Author, for his monologue "The Lame Dog Show". The play was produced when Mendes won a Portuguese-Brazilian Contest Awards from Camões Institute (Portugal) and Foundation for the Arts Brasil. The play was edited in book.
Mendes also won another Contest Awards from "Foundation for the Arts Brasil", in 2004, for his "a boy's blog", his first work for teenagers. Mendes also wrote, "A man called Lee", a musical comedy produced in 2006.