FILMMAKER'S INTRO.
As a child born and raised in Madrid, movies started to captivate me at a very young age. I rememeber I was around seven years old when I first watched movies like "Witness for the Prosecution" and "Stagecoach" at my great aunt Trini's house, and I was completely blown away by them. The characters portrayed by Marlene Dietrich, Tyrone Power, John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell and company were as real as gravity for me.
My passion for films and acting kept growing at the same time through out the years. When I reached high school I joined the threatre group and started to participate in some productions with great enthusiasm. In English, in Spanish... Didn't matter. I loved it. I also started to play around with a portable Toshiba movie camera that my parents gave me for Christmas when I was 12 years old. During my teens, and thanks to my parents VHS collection, I discovered the world of American films in all it´s splendor. From color to black and white, and even some slapstick gems.
During lockdown I wrote my first feature film script, "The guitar", a family drama that revolves around an old spanish alienated guitar luthier who takes a new disciple under his wing, a young hustler, in a final shot at redemption. Eager to know more about the film industry, I embarked in a Two year Film Program at Transforming Arts Institute, located also in Madrid, where I learned the basics of every trade and expanded my knowledge about scriptwriting and directing, while acting in some of the institute's shortfilms.
My final project as a film student, "The abominable nine o´clock man", a documentary short film about my grandparents life long relationship told from my granma´s perspective months after my granpa´s passing, earned three selections throughout 2024, two official ones at the Zabrinski International Film Festival from Colombia and the REC Ribadedeva en Corto from Cantabria (Spain), and an Out of competition one at the Jaén Provincial Council Short Film Festival Against Gender Violence, a Goya qualifying festival.
It was after I graduated from film school when I decided it was time for me to go to the States to keep pursuing my acting career. After finishing the one year acting conservatory in New York and before I flew back home, I wrote, produced, directed, photographed and co-starred in "Angels don´t smoke", my first short film shot entirely in English at a Brooklyn train station platform. The film started distribution at the end of 2025 and has garned it´s first official selection at the North Film Festival from New York. I also recently founded Tango On Films, a film production company focused on documentaries and fiction films. Now I´m back in Madrid, writting a sci-fi play in English and shooting "Santiago", a documentary short film about a 97 year old Spanish priest with a beautiful life story to share with the world.
PROJECTS.
The abominable nine o´clock man
Director & Screenwriter
Madrid, May of 2023. During a lunch with her son and grandson at her home, Carmen, an eighty-six year old woman of great vitality and an irreversibly tragic view of life, reflects on her relationship with her late husband Rafael, alongside whom she spent her last seventy years.
FILM DATA SHEET
Duration_ 9´ 20´´
Format_ 4:3
Camera_ BlackMagic Pocket 6k
Festival run 2024-25
Official Selection Zabrinski International Film Festival, Colombia
Official Selection REC Ribadedeva en Corto from Cantabria, Spain
Out of competition Selection at the Jaén Provincial Council Short Film Festival Against Gender Violence
(Goya qualifying festival)
Angels don´t smoke
Director, Producer Screenwriter, Director of Photography & Sound Editor
Brooklyn, NYC. 2025. Two marginalized men in their search for redemption strike up a conversation one night at a deserted Brooklyn train station platform. One of them has just tried to kill himself by jumping onto the train tracks. The second one, who stopped him from committing suicide by pulling him back before he jumped, claims to be an angel. The interaction, of an unexpected and stout honesty, will make them question their personal life choices.
