With a group of friends and friends of friends we made our first feature film THE GRANDEUR OF DELUSIONS in 2017. Actors took on secondary roles as sound, light and camera assistants. In New York City I was surrounded by creative and talented people. Those friends, luckily, had been to film or acting school. It was an experimental and collaborative film. I think and work with the mentality of an artist, with an emphasis on happy accidents and improvisation as the catalysts for creativity. Using some of the same actors in the same roles from our first film, with my partner Mason Rader, writer and editor, we made a second feature film, “The Monkey Head” in 2022 as a continuation of “The Grandeur of Delusions” story. In 2026 we have completed two short films. PARIS DOGGY BAG (16 minutes) and DÉJALO CAER/DROP IT (30 minutes).
I now live in Paris with Mason Rader who makes films with me as writer, editor and sometimes as co-director.
I was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas to a Mexican-American family. I watched movies but I made paintings, prints, ceramics and other crafts. My mother made my dresses and taught me how to do everything by hand. My father was a commercial artist at an army base. He designed and built large parade floats for San Antonio’s Fiesta celebrations every Spring. I went to art school instead of film school at the University of Texas at Austin. I went on to receive my masters in fine arts at Temple University, Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and Rome Italy. I moved to New York City. I went to films at MoMA, Film Forum and Anthology Film Archives and I got more and more interested in cinema, film history and visual storytelling.
