Filmmaker and advertising professional. Studied Cinema at Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado from 1983 to 1986. From 1990 on he studied at the Staatliche Fachschule fuer Optik und Fototechnik Berlin, in Germany. During the course, he worked in documentaries and series for German TV. In 1993 he returned to Brazil, where he worked with TV ads until 2002. In 2003 he was invited to work at Versatile, a film company based in China, and lived for three years between Shanghai and Hangzhou.  In 2010 he was one of the founders of Houdini Loc, a company specializing in filming equipment rental. Lives and works in São Paulo.