Since an early age I learned that people and life are complicated.

The Troof

Before directing professionally I worked for a plumbing company; sold ice-cream on a bicycle; and paid for his studies teaching English as a Second Language, in Argentina. I grew up between two contrasting worlds: in Manhattan my father was an upper east side superintendent. In Argentina, my mother was a classical ballerina in a small town in the province of Córdoba. 

Understanding from an early age that moving images have the power to provide audiences with blueprints for behavior, I found in cinema an art-form that encouraged me to shape and reframe the experiences of uprootedness, change and loss lived as a child.

I love teaching, mentoring and guest-speaking. I was a regular contributor to the Commercial Diversity Director’s Program (CDDP), and I am often invited to review films and teach Audiovisual Storytelling Techniques to the students at UCLA and SCI-Arc’s School of Architecture.

As a writer I have adapted three books for the screen. Among these is The Sea That Brought Us (El Mar que nos Trajo) based on the acclaimed novel by renowned Argentine author Griselda Gambaro, which narrates the story of the Italian immigration to Argentina told through the lens of the women —in both sides of the world— who made it possible.

I am a “living room” musician. My music was featured on Script Notes Podcast, Hosted by John August and Craig Mazin.

Together with neurodiverse author Jonathan Mooney we created a documentary short based on the book Normal Sucks. This film has been showcased at the UCLA Friends of Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, and was part of the Official Selection of the Project Un-Lonely Film Festival (link), hosted by Steve Buscemi.

Fluff

An award-winning film and commercial Director, Producer and Editor, I am also a member of the Directors Guild of America (DGA).

My work has been recognized in Tribeca, Santa Barbara (SBIFF), Mar del Plata, Shanghai International Film Festivals, among others, as well as in most Latino Film festivals in the US (LAILFF, NYILFF/HBO).

Among my awards is winning the first Cannes “Lion” in the history of ad agency Conill Saatchi & Saatchi, a “Gold Medal” at the New York Festivals, and a “Best of Show” at the AdAge Awards for a film he directed for UNICEF.

For nearly two decades I am proud to have been helping shape the U.S. Hispanic landscape directing and editing over 200 national broadcast commercials, award-winning documentaries and music videos, working with Latin artists like Natalia Lafourcade, Estados Alterados, Goyo/ChocQuibtown, Soledad Pastorutti and Wisin.

Driven by an undeviating fascination to explore the truth beneath everyday life and “ordinary” people, I directed the feature documentary Ordinary Gods (Fox/Disney). This film offers a compassionate observation of the lives of six young professional soccer players and their journey leading up to the FIFA World Cup. For the same studio, I helped create two other soccer documentary series: Phenoms, and a UEFA Champion’s League show currently in development. (link)

Facts

In 2025 I was one of the four lucky directors to attend Netflix’s Episodic Television “Series Director Program,” taught by the great Paris Barclay.

Before that, I was chosen by the Director’s Guild of America as a protégé in their inaugural Episodic Mentorship Program, mentored by pilot director David Semel (Star Trek Discovery) and Producer/Director Tom Verica (Bridgerton).

I studied non-linear screenwriting with Guillermo Arriaga (Amor Perros, Babel), and story structure with the great Howard Suber (The Power of Film).

In Argentina I graduated from an intensive six-year film directing program at Cordoba’s National University, where I was the Winner of the “Kodak Film School Competition Award,” granted by the late —and legendary— cinematographer, Laszlo Kovacs. 

“The vision I have of my work is one in which craftsmanship and poetry meet. Artistically, my mission is to celebrate the deep humanity we all share as individuals.”