documentary filmmaker from Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico and Co-founder of Eclipse studio.
With studies from the University of Texas at Austin, in Radio, Television & Film. Marcelo is a director whose work revolves towards the relationship between land and cultural identity, the examination of territory through stories of human immigration.
Since 2013, he has explored diverse roles like columnist for the Mexican arts magazine PICNIC, creative producer for Cero Pobreza a non-profit organization in Mexico, all the way to sales and distribution assistant coordinator at the Marché fu Film in Cannes for production studio, XYZ Films.
From 2020-2021 he worked for the Colombian group FatsO as film director in the release of two music videos which platformed the band into Austin Music Video Fest and Bogota Music Video fest, competing with artists like Aloe Blacc in the same category and screening alongside Missy Elliot.
During the year of 2022 he was chosen by filmmaker Richard Linklater to receive the annual Texas Water Foundation Award in recognition of his documentary film - VALLE.
Now in 2025 he was nominated in the category of best new voices from Latin America at the NatGeo organized - Santiago Wild film festival in Chile for his documentary - Badlands.