Artist/self-taught filmmaker: director, writer, editor, producer. Born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela. Graduated from both Media Studies (Andres Bello Catholic University) and Digital photography (Roberto Mata School). In 2016 I migrated from my native country out of necessity and unexpectedly stayed in NYC as an opportunity appeared. It has been my home for the past 10 years. To combat diasporic conditions, I co-founded EL FANTASMA, a Venezuelan cinema and post studio/collective that now has over ten premiered shorts and two completed features, involving international co-productions.

My films usually entail speculative fictions that tackle topics such as individual/collective migration (Venezuelan), dystopian imaginations, historical re-imagining, and repressed desires, emotions & malaises as consequences of political/collective environments. These works span hybrid films, creative docs, archive films, narrative fictions and expanded cinema projects. They have screened and won awards at film festivals including Locarno, Brussels, Sitges, Cinélatino Toulouse, Brooklyn Film Festival, Uruguay Film Festival, Chicago Latino FF, among many others. I’m a recipient of the Jerome Production Grant and the Venezuelan National Film Fund, and I have participated in programs such as Locarno Open Doors, Locarno Spring Academy, Tres Puertos Lab, the CineQuaNon Residency, Science New Wave lab, and others. I was recently an invited artist at the University of Iowa Cinematic Arts department as well as an invited lecturer for a montage-driven seminar in my hometown of Caracas.