Film director graduated from CUEC UNAM, now ENAC. He has received the Ariel Award from the Mexican Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on several occasions, he was nominated in 2007 for the Camera d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival with his debut feature Blue Eyelids and won the Sundance Audience Award in 2017 for I Dream in Another Language. In 2021 he released Impossible Things, a film that quickly won over the Mexican public. His film Where the Tracks End was released in 2023 to great acclaim on Netflix. Contreras has directed television series such as El Chapo, Pedal to the Metal and Belascoarán for Netflix, Before I Forget for HBO MAX and Falco for Amazon, which won the 2019 International Emmy Award. Tengo que morir todas las noches on Paramount+, a series that won Best Director at the SeriesMania festival in France, will soon be released, and he is in post-production of Para siempre, a Netflix original series, in both projects Contreras serves as showrunner.