He was born in Havana, Cuba, on July 6th 1947. He started with a short documentary film in 1987, Elviaje mas largo (The longest trip). After three years he made the short film Lasoledad de la jefa de despacho (The office manager’s loneliness) starring Daisy Granados. After another documentary film about salsa music, Yosoy, del Son a la Salsa (I am the son of Salsa) in 1996, it took him eight years to make his debut in a fiction film, Roble de Olor (Scent of oak). The film won two prizes at the Havana Film Festival. In the same year he made a documentary film entitled with the name of the actor Danny Glover, and in 2015 he made his second fiction film Vuelosprohibidos (Forbidden flights), the love story between Mario and Monique inside an airport after that a few flights have been cancelled because of a storm. That was a co-production between Cuba and the Dominican Republic.
