Screenwriter and film director. In 1972 he participated in the foundation of the Independent Film Workshop in Durango, Mexico. He worked as a photographer, editor, and director on more than 20 short films in super 8 mm format. He studied as part of the first generation of the CCC in Mexico City. His thesis short film, Polvo vencedor del sol, which recreates the desolation of the young workers of his hometown, won the Grand Prize for Fiction at the International Short Film and Documentary Film Festival in Lille, France, and the Ariel for Best Short Fiction in 1979. He is the director of 18 feature films, including Vidas errantes, Pueblo de madera, and El gavilán de la sierra, filmic stories about the life and customs of the mountain range of Durango, awarded at several national and international festivals. He founded the Municipal Institute of Art and Culture, the Durango Film Library (1996), the Durango Mexican Film Festival (2010), and the Durango International Film Festival (2017). He is a life member of the Mexican Academy of Film Arts and Sciences and the president of the Board of Directors of the Mexican Society of Directors of Audiovisual Works.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Monterrey
