W orking from San Miguel de Allende, Mexico City, and Austin, I’m an Ariel Award-winning Mexicana filmmaker, writing and producing live-action features, documentaries, and animated films.

I’m currently developing Ama, a live-action feature film set between Austin and San Miguel de Allende that explores how love manifests while navigating friendship, betrayal, loss, and the choice between conformity and purpose—universal themes designed to resonate across cultures.

I’m directing Sandra Cisneros: Uncensored, a project that captures the literary icon—raw, unfiltered, and still breaking barriers. This intimate feature documentary reveals how Sandra transformed personal trauma into revolutionary literature, proving that authentic voices from the margins have the power to reshape culture.

My experience includes producing documentary content for PBS, BBC, and Discovery, plus a number of independent projects, for 10 years from San Francisco. I won the Ariel (Mexico’s Oscar) in 2008 for best-animated feature production for La Leyenda de la Nahuala (2007), which continues to be a classic on Netflix. The film influenced a series that was acquired by Disney in 2021. Universal Pictures distributed two other features—one live-action, Todo Incluido / All Inclusive (2009) and the other 2D animation, Nikté (2009).

My first “solo” documentary, No Turning Back (1994), captured the genesis of the Zapatista movement in Chiapas. I then worked with my mentor Lourdes Portillo on The Devil Never Sleeps (1995)—which The New Yorker named in 2020 as one of 62 documentaries that shaped the art form.

As a single parent, I stepped off the train for several years to raise three kids: Pablo (25), Pedro (25), and Amalia (23). They graduated from college, having studied business, film, and aerospace engineering, respectively.

I served as an adjunct film professor and advisor at Monterrey Institute of Technology for eight years.

For a look at my journey frame-by-frame, check out my Timeline.