He graduated in Animated Filmmaking by Embrafilme (Brazilian Film Institute) and by the National Film Board of Canada. He has directed several short animated films, such as Campo Branco (1997), a laureate among the 100 best animated movies by Abraccine (Brazilian Film Critics Association), and the television animated series Um Conto em Cada Ponto (2017). Everybody’s Gone to Mars is his first feature film.