about

I was born in Guatemala, under the climate of eternal spring. A place of relentless urban rhythm, a mosaic of indigenous languages, and a culture saturated with color and texture.

I also lived in Honduras, Mexico, and now I've spent more than 10 years living in the United States. Without quite knowing when it happened, I've now lived more years outside my country than inside it. And that has led me to understand and witness so many stories, incredible ones, and some deeply frustrating ones too. I couldn't tell you if it started as a child or as an adult, but the hunger to make something, to say something through art, never left. First it was music. Now it's film and photography. Different instruments, same impulse: to capture life and hand it back in a way that moves you the way it moves me.

That impulse has taken form in a few projects I'm deeply proud of, but especially my latest, Las Amazonas de Yaxunah, a documentary for ESPN and Disney+, narrated by Yalitza Aparicio, about a team of Maya women who play softball in Yucatán. The film was nominated for a Sports Emmy for Outstanding Long Documentary, won the Imagen Award, was honored in Monaco with the Sportel Award, and received both a NAMIC Award and a Red Nation Award. It screened at the Morelia Film Festival, LALIFF, NYLIFF, and will soon screen at DFF in Frankfurt.

I carry the complexity of my background with me in everything I do. I remain focused on telling culturally rooted stories that cross borders and still land close to home, and, when possible, inspire something in the people who watch them.