Helio San Miguel was born in Madrid, Spain, and lives in New York, where he completed his MFA in Film Direction and Production from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Helio is the producer, writer and director of Agnes Heller: Philosopher, Dissident, Activist (2025), a feature-length documentary on the life and ideas of eminent Hungarian philosopher Agnes Heller. He is also the writer and director of Blindness (2007), a 32 minutes film about the quirky love story between a pathologically shy man and a blind woman. He has written the feature-length screenplay Ike's Place, a political thriller about an unprecedented crisis that takes place on Election Day, and as of 2025 is working on a script based on the life of a medieval philosopher.

Helio has also contributed to several film books, published numerous articles, and lectured extensively about cinema. He is the editor of World Film Locations: Mumbai (Intellect Books, 2012), and has collaborated in World Film Locations: Madrid (Intellect Books, 2011), The Cinema of Latin America (Wallflower Press, 2003), and Tierra en Trance (Alianza Editorial, 1999). He also holds a Ph.D. in philosophy and teaches film at The New School in New York.

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