I grew up in the Big Apple and went to the University of Wisconsin at Madison where languages seemed to be the only thing that grabbed my curiosity. Nevertheless, I left after 2 years and ultimately found my way out to San Francisco where I worked as a waiter for the next three years while I discovered that film school was my next step. Returning to College to finish my undergrad (May 2000) at the University of SF, I then crossed the Atlantic.

In 2003, I completed my post-graduate in The Art and Technique of Filmmaking from the The London Film School. For the next several years in London, I worked as an editor and cameraman while writing my first post-film school short “True Colours” which I then directed in May of 2006.

In January of 2007, “True Colours” premiered at Premiers Plans Festival dAngers (France) in which the short earned both the Special Jury Award and Best Actor in Short Award. Since then, “True Colours” has screened at nearly 90 international festivals, won various awards and prizes, and has sold to television in various international territories.

Much due to the international success of “True Colours,” I was then chosen as of the six writer / directors for the Cannes Cinefondation writing fellowship (La Residence) where I lived in Paris for five months (October 2007 February 2008) and wrote the first two drafts of my feature script “Olivers Deal.”

In January of 2009, I received my diploma for completing the five month Script Development Program at the prestigious writing workshop in Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Binger Film Lab) where I continued developing “Olivers Deal.”

Currently I reside in Lima, Peru with my wife Valeria Ruiz Salas. As my producers in New York (Darren Goldberg and Chris Marsh) piece together the packaging of “Oliver’s Deal,” I am working hard in pre-production to shoot my first short in the Spanish tongue (“ltimo Recurso” english: Last Resort) in the first days of July which is a prelude to my pera prima “Olivers Deal.”