Chucho E. Quintero was born in Río Blanco, Veracruz, Mexico in 1989. He has studied with teachers such as Paula Markovitch, Ignacio Ortiz, Jaime Humberto Hermosillo, and Jorge Ayala Blanco. He has worked as a translator/interpreter for several Mexican film festivals since 2009, and he has subtitled films for several international filmmakers. In 2011, he premieres his first feature called Six Pack (2011) at the 15th Mix Mexico Film Festival, where he wins the IMJUVE Award for Best Director Under 30 for his short film, Félix et le poisson (2011). He briefly attended Centro de Diseño, Cine y Televisión, where he shot his latest short film, 100 metros estilo libre (2013). His feature length film, Velociraptor (2014), won the Jury Prize for Best Feature at the 17th Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival in 2015, and got picked up by TLA Releasing for international distribution. By the end of 2015, he began working on post-production for his next picture, "Cabin, or these peculiar days".