He studied audiovisual media production at RTVE’s Official Institute, video and film editing at the TAI Schoola and film directing at the Havana Film School. He is the artistic director of the MiradasDoc Documentary Film Festival and the Canary Islands International Environmental Film Festival (Ficmec), as well as having steered the Área Garachico project in his home town since 2011. His work as a filmmaker includes the non-fiction feature films ‘Ella(s)’ (2010), selected for the Guadalajara Film Festival (Mexico); ‘Milagros’ (2018), which premiered at the Málaga Film Festival; and ‘Climate Exodus’ (2020), which won the Green Spike at Seminci. In 2024, he premiered his animated feature film ‘Black Butterflies’ at the Annecy Festival, before it was selected for film fests such as Mar del Plata, Idfa and Havana, and went on to win the Goya Award for Best Animated Film.