Nacho is a self-taught filmmaker from Britain. His love of film really began with his first job as a young teenager, managing a video store in a South London suburb.
Nacho is a veteran of the UK music industry of the late 80’s and 90’s. But since the early 2000’s, he has mostly resided in South Asia. Now he lives on a small quiet jungle island in the South China Sea. Alongside filmmaking, Nacho commutes daily via public ferry, to Hong Kong Island, to teach an early morning yoga class.
Around 2015, Nacho fell in love with the film editing process. He is most widely known for creating and restoring archive music videos and documentaries. He has a popular YouTube channel which boasts thirty thousand subscribers and over 15 million views.
Following David Bowie's death in 2016, Nacho started making Bowie videos and uploading them to the Nacho's Videos YouTube channel. To his surprise and delight, Nacho's Bowie videos got a lot of attention. And so he kept going. After a couple of years of exclusively focusing on Bowie videos, Nacho began to additionally create videos by other favored artists.
Some of the uploads are of completely original "new" music videos, that for example may match previously unused / underused archive footage with a classic track. Other videos can be of live footage re-soundtracked with official live audio tracks. And others are simply attempts to restore or expand existing classic videos, using the latest digital editing technology.
It's difficult to say how many of Nacho's videos have been uploaded to date, partly because of the numerous different channels and platforms he inhabits and those of others that share his work. But also because, despite continuous efforts to comply with / circumvent copyright restrictions, videos regularly get blocked and removed. Some of the removed videos remain offline, but may reappear later in revised form, on platforms that are less strictly policed.
Nacho's work has been featured in many music magazines, including Rolling Stone, Rock & Folk, NME, online media channels such as Dangerous Minds and Far Out Magazine, and on the official David Bowie channel. Nacho has contributed to music documentaries and TV segments. He also undertakes "official" archive music video restoration work for artists and labels.
In 2020, Nacho produced the documentary ‘David Bowie in New York 1980: The Elephant Man, Scary Monsters and Other Strange People’. In 2021, he released an updated version of his documentary ‘David Bowie is The Man Who Fell to Earth’. The film received a lot of attention and praise, including from the original film’s director, Nic Roeg. It was endorsed by the official David Bowie Estate website and received commendation from Bowie’s wife, Iman. In 2023, he released another documentary, David Bowie Live on Stage Earls Court London 1978 | Part 1
In 2021 one of Nacho’s documentaries was shown at the Wonderous Stories Film Festival in London.
In 2022 and 2023, he appeared at the David Bowie World Fan Convention, in Liverpool and New York City.
Nacho is an ethical vegan and is deeply interested in the struggle for justice and rights for all beings.