Director’s Biography: NINO GABALDON There's a place where pain meets truth and art results. Actor/Writer/Director/Editor/Producer Nino Gabaldon knows this place intimately. He lives there, in fact. It's not a location he willingly chose-it just found him; landing in his soul like a meteorite-causing the requisite damage, and leaving a thing of beauty, a dazzling ruin which audiences will marvel over and want to watch. Determined to learn the gamut of filmmaking-from lighting, to editing, to art direction, to acting, to directing, to writing and all the way through to marketing. He's worked on trailers for 'A; list films; Autumn in New York, Miss Julie, One Night At Mc Cool’s, Legally Blonde...to name a few. His acting career is young yet has availed him the opportunities to work for such talents as Sydney Pollock, Robert Wagner, Edward Nieumier (Robo Cop, Starship Troopers) and Writer Director Joshua Stallings, “Kind of Cute For A White Boy”, “The Ice Runner”, and one of his latest “Solo Es El Viento”, a coming of age story of two young men growing up without a father in the old West. Set in a time when Mexico was neither “Old” or “New” and for some carrying a gun and staying alive was what it meant to be a man. Nino is set to Direct. Nino: "I wanted to learn every aspect of the business-so when it came time to make my own films I would understand my Producer as well as my Grip.” It was 1994 when Actor Toby Maguire introduced Nino to New York Actor’s Studio Veteran David Le Grant, where he went on to study Acting and Directing for the next five years. Sure, Nino's been to hell and back, and not only lived to write about it, but courageously re-lives it and addresses it through his art-on film. Nino is now a human do-ing and a devoted dad-with an adorable six-year-old son, Vicente, who debuts as his son- Vicente “Cobos” in his upcoming Feature entitled “Change”. This film is a view into the soul of every person that has ever suffered the obstacle of an addiction. It is also an autobiographical look at the last year and a half of Nino’s life. In June of 2002 he set out to loose 100 pounds and conquer his last demon of compulsive eating by creating a vehicle of film. He knew he could trick himself into facing his fears with the help of a tight production schedule! The story is told from the point of view of a fictional character named Sal Cobos. Sal is a struggling actor who sets out to lose sixty pounds in preparation for the role of a lifetime but is in turn given the gift of a life free from active addiction. Grateful for every day, and every lesson, Nino counts his blessings and stays grounded: Nino: "One door only closes that another door can open. I had to be freed from that life if I wanted to tell stories about it."