Durán (1942), a screenwriter, director and producer, has been living in Brazil since 1977. He worked as an assistant director on several films from the early 1970s to the mid 1980s and made his directing debut in 1978 with O escolhido de Iemanjá. He also made The Color of Destiny (A Cor do seu destino, 1986) and Forbidden to Forbid (Proibido Proibir, 2007).