Born in the center of the world, Ecuador, on January 20, 1980. At age 15 with a portable camera he ventured into his first nude photographs, at 17 he already had access to a video camera recorded his first fiction short film "SED" (1997).
He graduated at age 23, as the best graduate in the career of Audiovisual Production at the Universidad Iberoamericana of Quito (2003).
He took his first steps in the audiovisual world as a documentalist working on an experimental project in the cold Andean moors., soon after he was hired as Production Manager of advertising commercials in Vértigo Films (Quito), company with which he achieved consecutive international awards. At the same time, he ventured into television in 2004 directing extreme adventure programs.
BAYARDO CHAVEZ
Writer - Director
ECUADOR -US
In 2007, he returned to his hometown (Latacunga), founded "Producciones en Lata" and made "Aventureros de Cotopaxi", a television program that granted him recognition as a character of the year.
At age 29 he is recruited again by "Vértigo Films" (2009), working hand in hand with Andrés González for two years.
At age 31 he made his debut as Advertising Director in "Visión Uno" (Guayaquil) filming his first video clip "Centrifugaba" (2012), this
product catapults his career and leads him to direct in "Mr. Miranda "(2013), Company with which range several local and international awards.
At the beginning of 2017 he began to work as an independent Director, at the end of the same year, together with Maruri Gray, he received several national and international advertising awards.
At present, 15 years after starting his professional career, he returns to his position as a Documentary Artist, resuming his project "ABYA YALA - NATIVE NATION" in the United States of America.