Juan Cavia has worked as an art director and illustrator since 2004. He studied cinema and, in parallel, developed knowledge of illustration and painting, subjects he trained from an early age with his mentor, the Argentine illustrator Carlos Pedrazzini. At age 21, he began a career as an art director. Since then, he has made publicity, TV, music videos, theater and nine feature films, including O Segredo dos seu Olhos, by J. Campanella (winner of the Oscar for Best Foreign Film, in 2010). He has collaborated with Filipe Melo for over a decade, and the pair have already published several books, in Portugal and abroad.