Samir Oliveros was born in Bogotá, Colombia. At 25 he launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund his first feature, BAD LUCKY GOAT, shot in Old Providence in the Caribbean. The film premiered at SXSW in 2017 and went on to play over seventy festivals including BFI London and TIFF Next Wave. He recently completed his MFA in Directing at AFI in Los Angeles. His thesis, CACTUS BLOSSOM, was awarded with a DGA Jury Prize.