He is a Colombian-Ecuadorian director, producer, and screenwriter. His directorial debut Cocalero, premiered in the Sundance Film Festival 2007 and was theatrically released in over 20 countries. His first fiction feature Porfirio premiered in Cannes Directors’ Fortnight 2011 and won top prizes at many international film festivals. In addition to filmmaking, LANDES has a passion for architecture and completed construction on a modernist Miami home of his own design, Casa Bahia, in 2015. He currently lives in New York.