Carlos is a fictional author with more than 10 years of experience. He wrote 3 books, 3 stageplays and 18 screenplays (features, shorts, pilots), earning a total of 34 accolades. Carlos' preferred genre is sci-fi, but he also loves writing comedy, drama and action.
DOWNBURST is his most awarded script, having won the Action/Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Thriller Festival, was placed in the Capital Fund Screenplay Competition 2025's Hot 100 and was 2 times on The Red List Top as Best Action Feature of the month. It has also been laureled as a semifinalist and quarterfinalist in other contests.
Other laurels include placements (with other scripts) as a semifinalist in the Outstanding Screenplays Shorts Competition 2023, Emerging Screenwriters Suspense Screenplay Competition 2023 and Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards Fall 2024, 2 honorable mentions in the New York Screenwriting Awards and a finalist in SWN Short Film Screenplay Competition Autumn 2023.
Carlos' writing career started after he attended some courses and workshops related with creative writing, screenwriting, directing and dubbing. Afterwards, he published 3 multi-genre tale books (De Conto a Romance published by Atlantic Books), wrote and produced dozens of sketches for a comedy animated web-series and lately he ventured on writing and submitting plays and scripts to competitions.
Professionally, Carlos is a full-time software engineer with an MSc in Informatics and Computing Engineering, who worked as a developer on major companies such as Microsoft or Critical Manufacturing (where he currently is) and won 2 national engineering awards. But whenever he has free time, he loves creating original stories.