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Kriz Gazmen

screenwriter

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ124345064 ↗
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Kriz Anthony G. Gazmen (born August 8, 1986) is a Filipino businessman, screenwriter and film producer who is the current head of Star Cinema, the film division of ABS-CBN Corporation.

Education

Gazmen graduated from the University of the Philippines Diliman with a Bachelor of Arts in Film and Audio-Visual Communication degree in 2007.

Career

Gazmen was hired by Star Cinema in 2007 as a creative producer. By 2015, he was promoted to be a creative director for the studio. In producing films, Gazmen explained in an interview that the studio relies heavily on audience feedback, using focus group discussions to evaluate their films' performances. In 2018, Gazmen was assigned to be the business unit head of the newly-established Black Sheep Productions, which was created to produce films that are more appealing to a growing millennial market.

On May 1, 2022, Star Cinema managing director Olivia Lamasan stepped down from her position and appointed Gazmen as the new head of the film studio. The studio under Gazmen produced the romantic drama film Hello, Love, Again (2024), Star Cinema's first co-production with rival studio GMA Pictures, which became the first Filipino film to gross more than ₱1 billion at the box office.

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