Director, screenwriter, and editor, he abandoned his career as a surgeon to pursue a career in journalism and collective communication at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He is the founder of TAPOSIN and the magazines "Tintero" and "Sitios", where he practiced cultural journalism and film criticism for publications such as "El Nacional", "La Revista de la Universidad", and "Su otro yo".
In 1977, he entered the Cinematographic Training Center (CCC) and created the documentary "My unemployed friends" and the fiction films "Notes for other things" (1978) and "Endre in the city" (1979),all short films made as exercises. In 1981, he filmed his thesis film, the medium-length film "Goodbye, goodbye my idol", which served as a rehearsal for "The Legend of a Mask" (1989),a parody that reviews the commonplaces of the wrestling cinema and with which he debuted professionally, receiving the Ariel for Best First Film in 1991.
He collaborated in "I Know Three" (1983),an independent medium-length film made by his wife, Maryse Sistach, for whom he also adapted and edited "The Steps of Ana" (1988). He adapted "Last night I dreamed with you" (1991),based on the story of Alfonso Reyes "The creative revenge", and co-directed "The paternal line" (1995),a story between the academic documentary and poetry, between anthropology, autobiography, and intimate family remembrance, using homemade films filmed by his grandfather between 1925 and 1940 in Papantla, Veracruz.
The film was part of the Official Selection of the 52nd Venice Film Festival, exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and in European museums of the Guggenheim Foundation, winning the Arieles for Best Original Screenplay, Storyline, and Documentary Feature, as well as the Jury Prizes at the Trieste Festivals, Bogotá, Uruguay, and the one for Best assembly in Gramado, Brazil.
In 1997, he made the documentary video "The Ballad of John O'Reilly" for the UNAM, about the participation of the Battalion of St. Patrick in the war of 1847 against the USA. He co-directed, again with Sistach, "The Comet" (1988),a film set in 1910 that is inspired by the life of the pioneers of Mexican cinema to narrate the formation of a filmmaker.
That same year, he received the Best Latin American film award at the San Juan Festival, Puerto Rico. In 2000, he produced, adapted, and edited "Perfume de violetas" by Maryse Sistach, with which he obtained the Ariel for Best Original Screenplay. Since 1998, he has been an Active Member of the Mexican Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, A.C.
