Hernando Bansuelo was born in Southern California and has always felt like an astronaut in a Western. He came from a dark restrictive hermetic environment that didn’t have much interest in the arts. His proletarian parents divorced when he was still in grade school and he later relocated to New York City. He decided to become a film-maker after seeing Come Back, Little Sheba and Batman back to back and has never looked back. A restless student, he often cut class for the movies; he also studied photography and journalism and took summer film courses at USC, NYU and Lund University in Sweden. He attended university at UCLA, where he developed his storytelling skills. He studied Theater Direction and obsessed over the artists he admired: Nichols, Mendes, Lumet, Cronenberg, Lynch, and Coppola. There, he staged work by some of the world’s best dramatists: Shepard, LaBute, and Shakespeare. During his three-year stint, he also wrote student films, dramatic monologues, and interned like mad. After graduation, he headed back East to work on Oliver Stone’s World Trade Center. Bansuelo has made a host of short films and commercials. He is expanding his short Welcome Home into a feature film entitled Last Look that will lense in summer 2011. He has made several short films including The Little Things and The Hamptons Collections. Currently, he is in post-production on Someone Sam, a neo- horror film he assistant directed and produced.