Born in the 50's in Calzada de Calatrava, province of Ciudad Real, legal party of Almagro and Archbishopric of Toledo. He migrated with his family to Extremadura when he was eight. There he went to Elementary and High School with the Salesians and Franciscans fathers. His bad religious education just taught him to loose his faith in God. By that time he starts compulsively going to the movies in Caceres.

"I was born in a very bad time for Spain, but a good one indeed for the film industry. I'm talking about the fifties. I was still a child when I first stepped into a hometown theater. It looked sort of like the one portrayed in some sequences of "El Espíritu de la colmena" -if my memory serves me right, there is a theater in that film by Erice".

"Apart from the chair, the first time I went to a theater I also took a can of coal with me to fight the cold during the projection. In time, the heat of that makeshift hearth has become the paradigm of what movies meant to me back then".