When he was older, he shot several short videos including Visite Carlos Paz, and Calafate.

In 1996, Caetano won a Media Arts Fellowship, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation in New York City.

[3] In 2005, Caetano returned to Uruguay to shoot the mini-series Uruguayos Campeones for television.

[4] Film critic Manohla Dargis, writing for the Los Angeles Times, calls Caetano "a leading figure in the new Argentine cinema."

She notes that Caetano's first feature, the 1998 release of Pizza, Beer, Cigarettes, helped jump-start a "New Argentine Cinema.