He was born in Bogota. He graduated at the cinema school in Prague and founded the drama and audiovisual arts Center that he heads today and where he directed about thirty plays. He is a producer and director for TV; he adapted best Latinoamerican authors in TV series ( Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jorge Ibarguenguitia, Sergio Ramirez ). Yet he had collaborated with Gabriel Garcia Marquez for his first feature film, Tiempo de morir.