Gabe Torres

Gabe Torres grew up in Aurora, New York, a small village on Cayuga Lake, one of the Finger Lakes in upstate New York. He started making films at age twelve when he discovered an old eight-millimeter camera in a neighbor's closet. Soon he was cranking out numerous Super 8 films filled with monsters, disasters and all kinds of mayhem. His early inspirations were visual effects-driven disaster movies and horror films. The films he made in high school mostly reflected these early influences and resulted in epic floods, fires and monster attacks. In the process, model ships and planes were destroyed while friends and family perished in a flurry of blood and gore. In his senior year, Torres made his first serious film. The visually poetic "A Short Distance" won numerous prizes at Super 8 festivals around the country and became the primary portfolio piece for his application to the USC Film School. Torres was accepted to the USC Film School and moved to Los Angeles at age 18. USC was a rich