Gervacio Santos

Gervacio Santos is a Filipino film editor. During his career, he was considered one of the most demanded in his field. Gervacio has worked under numerous pseudonyms including: George Santos, Gerry Santos, Herb Bas, Bas Santos, and Bass Santos. He has earned numerous awards, including three Famas Awards for Kalibre 45 (1957), Cavalry Command (1963) and Scout Rangers (1964). He won Best Film Editing Awards in both the Metro Manila Film Festival for "Remembrance" and in the Quezon City Film Festival for "Alyas Bagsik".

Career

Santos began his professional career as an editor in 1954 at Premiere Productions where he was given the break to edit the film titled CONDE DE MONTECARLO starring ROGELIO DELA ROSA. He worked on Si Eva at si Adan directed by Gerry de Leon. As house Editors he edited an average of one feature film monthly, editing pictures directed by prominent movie directors including to name a few, Nemesio Caravana, Cesar Gallardo, Efren Reyes, Bert Avellana, Eddie Romero, Josefino Cenizal, others. In 1967, he left the studio and became employed by TAMARAW STUDIOS,Inc., owned and operated by Albert Joseph and his brothers. The studio have editing and laboratory facilities which cater to independent film productions including Tagalog Ilang Ilang Productions, AM (Amalia Fuentes) Productions, JE (Joseph Estrada) Productions among others. As a free lancer he worked in every studio facilities such as LVN STUDIOS, SAMPAGUITA PICTURES, FIL-AM (Fernando Poe Productions) where other movie producers have their production filmed and processed for post production . By this time, Santos had edited several hundred full-length Filipino movies. Having established a good refutation American producers who came to shoot their movies in the Philippines hired him to edit their film. It is at this time that he shifted his attention to editing American movies, mostly with Roger Corman who co-produce with CIRIO SANTIAGO FILM ORGANIZATION. (IMDB have a partial list of the several movies he had edited for them. 

   He served as President of the Film Editors Guild of the Philippines from 1974 to 1983 and then again in 1984 to 1986 at the same times being a member of the Board of Governors of the FILM ACADEMY OF THE PHILIPPINES.

In 1989, although he has an assignment with Cirio Santiago to edit 2 films, he,together with his family emigrated to Toronto, Canada. He planned to come back to the country to fulfill the assignments but for some reason he had not made it. He and his family members are now full-pledged Canadian citizens.

Present career

Santos is currently retired. He lives in Canada with his wife, five children, and five grandchildren. Circa 2012, Santos has been involved in the Toronto television show Fillipino, Eh! where he appeared in various comedy skits.

Filmography

x Movini's Venom (1970)

External links

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