A seasoned Argentine filmmaker and adventurer, Miguel is passionate about polar regions, mountains and wildlife. He has climbed some of the tallest mountains in the world including Mount Aconcagua, Chimborazo, Kilimanjaro x2, Mount Kenya, Izztacíhuatl, and participated in five expeditions in the Antarctica and three in the Arctic.
Miguel has produced films in over 60 countries over the past decade. Some of his unforgettable experiences include: travelling to war-torn Libya with a mission to save lions at the abandoned Tripoli Zoo; being first to film a previously undiscovered Emperor penguin colony in Antarctica's remote Marie Byrd Land; and flying over active volcanoes with endangered gorillas in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Miguel served as the United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP)Head of Multimedia (2016-2019).
Miguel's work has also won awards in international film festivals. His movie about an endangered Amur tigress in Far East Russia was a finalist at Wildscreen Film Festival in Bristol, UK (Panda Awards 2014). His work has been showcased by National Geographic, GoPro, Discovery, and CNN among others. He also recently produced two ground-breaking VR360 documentaries on snow leopards in Kyrgyzstan and mountain gorillas in Uganda.
Miguel holds a Postgraduate Degree in Natural History Filmmaking and Communication from the University of Otago, New Zealand.