Rafael is a high school senior at the Ross School in Easthampton, NY. Rafael has been working on the VISIONS project as his senior thesis since summer 2000. Rafael has directed and shot many short films including "Tibetan boy lost at the Easthampton Film Festival". Rafael has also attended numerous film festivals. With the assistance of Grella he completed the Aiza Biby trailer used for solicitation of funding. Rafael has won several awards for his films shot with DV film and has successfully established a working media center for the Department of Medical Informatics at SUNY Stony Brook.