Biography

Born in the little city of Formosa in the north of Argentina, on the 10th July, 1972, Massa was part of a middle class family. Moving to Buenos Aires in 1990, he studied in the IDAC Instituto de Arte Cinematografico. Malevo (1990) was his film first shot at the IDAC, when only 17 years old. He won best first short Film award at the IDAC. In 1991 he started as a second assistant director in the film industry, while he continued to attend the IDAC.

In 1992 he made La terraza (1992) - a 30-min 16mm action movie which opened doors to the world of the Advertising TV spots Production. He worked on several of these, including Veritas, Panavox, Great films themes, Dauhori, Zanella, Yamaha, Camod, Puma.

In 1994 he started his film feature debut with _Más allá del límite (1994)_ (Beyond the Limit) which won best first Film Feature at the 2ºLuias Sandrini Film Festival in December 1994. He moved to New York to attend advanced Directing Workshops at NYU and NYFA in 1995 and made "The Last Duel" (1997) a 35 min Tango Drama as a Thessis of NYFA. Cacería (2001), his new feature movie filmed in Argentina, has already won Best editing and best young performance at a Local Festival. It will be released on April 4 2002 in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay.

In July 2002 he starts pre-production of Día de los muertos (2002) - a horror film in Argentina. In the USA two movies project are pending: "Tango Stories" & "Big Joe" - at the end of 2002 and 2003.