Álvaro Aponte-Centeno obtained a Master’s degree in Communications from the University of Puerto Rico. He directed the award-winning short films ‘Luz’ (2010), ‘Mi Santa Mirada’ (2012), which was selected for the Official Competition of the Festival de Cannes, and ‘Yahaira’ (2015). With his first feature-length project film, ‘La mar’, he participated in the second IBERMEDIA Workshop of Film Project