Since the early 1980s, Rubén Abruña has worked as a screenwriter, producer, director, cameraman, and editor of documentaries and journalistic reports in New York, San Juan, Miami, and Zürich. In his films, he explores the relationship between people and their natural and built environments. In 2014, his film La casa ausente (The Absent House) about the sustainable work of architect Fernando Abruña Charneco, received praise at dozens of international festivals and was widely distributed in North America. In 2023, he completed Holy Shit: Can Poop Save the World?, a multiple award-winning documentary about recycling human excrement into fertilizer to grow food and produce energy, which the German magazine Der Spiegel highlighted, writing: « …an excrement-filled film that is as instructive as it is exciting, skilfully helping its viewers overcome any initial threshold of disgust within a few minutes.»
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