Bio

Early Years

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Born and raised in Costa Rica, I started taking interest in the arts from a very young age. I loved storytelling and began "writing" stories before I even knew how to write. As I grew older, this fascination with narrative evolved into wanting to be a more active participant in the art of storytelling, which lead to me wanting to act and film (making several homemade movies with my friends and toys). A similar desire of expression through other mediums lead me to pick up drawing. However, as many childhood hobbies, most of these projects were just that.

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At age 10, I got into a music institute where I started learning guitar. Music was the first "hobby" that became something more than that. I played in a couple of bands with my friends, as a solo act in my school, and somewhere along the way I decided to start learnings songs that were outside the "guitar genres". Then came time to pick a career. With all the effort me and my family had put into music, there was only one choice for my desired career...

Filmmaking. 

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Despite me never receiving any formal training in any of my other hobbies like acting, drawing, or fiction narrative writing, I still loved doing all of these and I could honestly not see me doing one of them for the rest of my live, no matter how much I loved them (and by this point, I had also started getting into photography and dance). What originally drew me into Filmmaking as a professional career was the sheer versatility of the art form. 

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College Years

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I started majoring in "Digital Cinema & Filmmaking" at Pace University. While taking all the usual classes like "Editing", "Writing for Different Media", "Directing", "Lighting", I immediately joined the Theater club where I participated on every show we put on (on stage, and off stage). This gave me some sort of campus-wide reputation as a performer (a musician, in particular) which meant I got invited to performing in many events for other orgs and clubs. 

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As I matured as a musician, and as I was learning to become a filmmaker, I started becoming more creatively active to the point where I started writing original music. At first, it was for my own projects and short films, and then I started writing just original songs. This was the point in my life where I started to develop every single skill I had ever had an interest in. 

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The Nameless Demon

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"名無し" is Japanese for "No Name" or "Anonymous". Of every name in existence, why would I choose this one? I've never been good at socializing. I'm quite a shy person and have a ton of insecurities. Being around people (big crowds of people in particular) is just something that never came natural to me. However, I noticed something. Whenever I was up on stage (acting, playing music) or working on set, all of that baggage disappeared. I was let loose, unchained, unrestrained to be myself. After coming to this epiphany, that's when I chose to take on the name "Nanashi". It isn't about the name, it isn't about the face, it's about just being simply yourself. 

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"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet"