Héctor Gálvez co-directed the documentary feature Lucanamarca, which premiered at the International Documentary Festival IDFA in Amsterdam in 2008 winning a Silver Fox Award. Paraiso, his first fiction feature film, had its world premiere at the 2009 Venice Film Festival, in the Horizons section, and has screened at over 40 film festivals around the world, winning numerous awards.

NN (Non Nomine), his second feature film, obtained funding from the Hubert Bals Development Fund, the Cinémas du Monde Fund, the World Cinema Fund and the Ibermedia Fund. It won the Best Unproduced Script at the 2011 Havana Film Festival.