Won major world-wide attention for "Gaby - A True Story," the poignant study of a woman he learned about from a television program, a writer coping with cerebral palsy
Returned to Mexico; directed short films and documentaries for the Instituto Nacional Indigenista, Conacine, SA and Centro de Producion de Cortometraje
1990
Directed first American feature, "White Palace," starring Susan Sarandon and James Spader
