It was in 1997, while studying at the Business School at the University in Madrid, that Escalera, thanks to a series of Film and Video courses, defines his new career path.
Upon completing his economic studies, he leaves Madrid to go first to London and then on to New York, where he takes on film courses at NYU, followed by studies at the School of Film and Television at Antonio de los Baños in Cuba.
In 2000 Escalera returns to Madrid to direct his first short film Space 2. He also starts to work as Assistant Director for television and advertising, specializing in this field which leads him to relocate to Barcelona in 2002. There, with the Catalan production company Leading Edge, he directs his second short film Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Bed, which premiered in 2003 and was recived in several international festivals including Uppsala (Sweden) and Gijon (Spain).
Two years later he returns to Madrid where he starts to study Acting and Directing of Actors with Fernando Piernas and meets the screenwriter Mona Leon Siminiani. Together they wrote a script that would become his third short film, What Elena Wants, produced by Lolita Films and Fuera de Foco, premiering in 2007 was also shown in more than seventy interntional festivals and receiving over twenty awards, including best direction award at Cinemajove.
In that same year, Escalera starts directing commercials with diferents productions companies in Spain. And between 2007-2009 he combines commercial work with fiction on television.
Currently, Escalera is still working in commercials with several production companies in Spain and Mexico and is preparing two feature projects titled Life eXpected, and No Sé Decir Adiós, written by Pablo Remón and produced by Lolita Films, recently funded by the Spanish Ministry of Culture.
