Born in Quito on July 3, 1967, he received an MFA in Film Directing at the Russian State University of Cinematography (VGIK), the world's oldest film school founded in 1919. In 1996 he starred in the role of the Author in Camilo Luzuriaga’s acclaimed film Between Marx and a Naked Woman / Entre Marx y una mujer desnuda, which tells the story of an author who gets lost between the book he is writing and the reality and a love that does not exist and the ideals of revolution.