About

Carlos is a Mexican-American filmmaker based in Brooklyn.

He was named one of NYU Film School’s New Latino Leaders by Indiewire and was a 2018 NALIP Latino Lens Winner.

His short, Ni De Aquí, Ni De Allá (neither from here, nor there) is now streaming on PBS and World Channel. It played at over a dozen international and domestic film festivals and won Best LGBT Short at the Sene Film Festival.

As a producer, he has worked across film, commercial, and branded content for clients including Instagram, Adidas, Liberty Mutual, Chase, Nordstrom, The New York Times, and Google. His recent film credits include Clare and Kimchi, which premiered at the SXSW Film Festival, and Artemis Falls, starring Adepero Oduye (12 Years a Slave), which debuted at the Atlanta Film Festival. In 2019, he produced Nordstrom’s "An Open Mind Is The Best Look," which won three Cannes Lions and was added to the permanent archives at MoMA. He produced Michael B. Jordan’s inaugural Chase Sapphire campaign, directed by Oscar-nominated cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema. He recently collaborated with Jim Henson’s Creature Shop to launch Liberty Mutual’s latest spokescharacter, Liberty Biberty.

His screenplay Cheer Up, Paco! was a semifinalist for the Outfest Screenwriting Lab. He was named an Escape Route Films Shorts Lab Fellow in 2025 and was a finalist for the Netflix New Voices Filmmaker Grant in 2026. He recently completed his latest short film, Method Cowboy, which is currently on the festival circuit.

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