He studied filmmaking at the Institut des Hautes Études Cinématographiques (IDHEC) and the University of Vincennes, in Paris. Back in Bolivia he directed a number of film and video documentaries on cultural and social issues. He went in exile after the military coup of 1980, and continued his work in Nicaragua and Mexico. He returned to Bolivia en 1983 and directed, along with Eduardo Barrios, a UNESCO production on the miners community radio stations: "The voice of the mines". In 1984 he did a documentary on a Bolivian poet: Primo Castrillo, poeta (1984), awarded with the Second Prize at the International Super 8 Film Festival of Montreal. In 1988 he directed Bolivia: Union Rights, aired by the Dutch television.
