Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1982. He has been living in New York since 2011. He is a filmmaker and screenwriter for feature films and short films premiered at the festivals of Berlin, Locarno, Cannes, Toronto, and New York. His films often stem from a variety of literary sources such as William Shakespeare, Cesare Pavese, Sappho, and Domingo F. Sarmiento. He is a film professor at Pratt Institute in New York and coordinates the film creation program at the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola in San Sebastián. He has also been a film programmer for the Anthology Film Archives and the Punto de Vista Documentary Film Festival. He is currently developing two projects: an adaptation of The Lesson of the Master by Henry James, and a narrative essay based on Remedies for Fortunes by Francesco Petrarca. Tú me abrasas [You Burn Me] is his latest feature film to date.