Director photographer and screenwriter He spent his childhood in Durango where his mother was the states production coordinator During this period photographer Alex Phillips Jr a friend of his parents gave him a VHS camera with which he made his first recordings in the company of other children After finishing high school he tries four times unsuccessfully to enter the CCC and once the CUEC He moved to Guadalajara where he worked as a photographer for video commercials and studied photography specializing in Erotic Still Photography at the Hospicio Cabañas 19921993 Later he participates in a film workshop at the San Antonio de los Baños Film School Cuba 1998 Chava Cartas began in the television industry as director of photography in the soap operas Nada Personal1996 and Demasiado Corazón1997 for Argos He entered the film industry with the short film Lucero1996 which he directed and photographed His work as a photographer and director is linked to filmmaker Fernando Sariñana who produced and directed many of the works in which he participated as a photographer