Born in Salamanca, Spain, David Martin-Porras felt a strong passion for storytelling from an early age. During his first two years of college, he studied Mass Media Communication at the University of Salamanca and worked for the local newspaper. In 2002, he won an Erasmus scholarship to study in Munich at the Ludwig-Maximilian University. After his return to Spain, he moved to Barcelona where he finished his Bachelor’s degree at the Pompeu Fabra University. This city would open his eyes to the art of filmmaking. From 2003 to 2006 he shot three short films with renowned Spanish actors and also worked for Pedro Almodovar’s Production Company, El Deseo. In 2006 Martin-Porras won a scholarship from La Caixa Foundation to study in the USA and he began the Directing Program at UCLA Film School. For his first film in English, The Breakfast, he worked with the two-time Tony award winning actress, Cherry Jones. In 2008 he screened his next movie, Portrait of a Couple, at the Palm Springs Short Film Festival, and sold the broadcast rights to LOGO, the gay TV channel of MTV networks. His most political film, Ida y Vuelta (Round Trip), was selected as a National Finalist for the Student Academy Awards and won the Latino category of the Directors Guild of America Student Awards. Martin-Porras graduated with his Thesis film, The Widow, for which he received the Wasserman Award and the DGA Student Award in the Latino category for second year in a row. At present, he is working on the feature script A Texas Story, a thriller/drama that takes place in a lost town of the Southern state.