Ph.D. in Communication from the Universidad de los Andes (Chile), with a dissertation on the representation of violence in Mexican cinema from the perspective of Aristotelian catharsis.
He earned a master’s degree in Narrative and Digital Production from the National School of Cinematography and Television ( Universidad Panamericana ) in Mexico. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Hispanic Philology and Audiovisual Communication from the University of Navarra (Spain).
An academic interested in screenwriting and research on aspects related to narrative and poetics in audiovisual fiction. He is a member of the National System of Researchers (SNII), the Screenwriting Research Network (currently on the Steering Committee), and the Ibero-American Network for Research on Audiovisual Narratives. He chairs the Film Committee of the Mexican section of SIGNIS, the International Association of Catholic Communicators. He has served on the jury at several international film festivals, including those in Guanajuato, Washington, Toulouse, Warsaw, and Berlin. He is a film critic for the website PalomitasCaramelizadas.com.
Research professor at the School of Communication at the Universidad Panamericana, where he served as director of the bachelor’s degree program in Communication for 7 years. He teaches courses on Film and Audiovisual Narrative.
Research Areas
- Audiovisual narrative
- Screenplay
- Mexican cinema
- Depictions of Violence in the Media