Sastre was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, and started to study cinema at the early age of 8.

The Foundation has at its heart the opportunity to sponsor artists from the periphery who normally do not have the economic means to access international circuits.

Artist Matthew Barney, was selected for the National representation of Uruguay in the São Paulo Biennial.

[3] In 2008 he won the Faena Prize for an Urban video- intervention in Buenos Aires, Argentina featuring Latin American Sex symbol from the 60's Mrs Isabel Sarli,[4] also this year the production of his first feature film was announced, a movie entitled Miss Tacuarembo starred by Natalia Oreiro[5] and Rossy de Palma.

Only three bottles of this fragrance "U From Uruguay" have been produced, the only bottle for sale was auctioned on 31 May 2013 during the opening of the IILA (Instituto Italo-Latinoamericano) pavilion, within the framework of the 55th Venice Biennial "U From Uruguay" was finally acquired for 50,000 dollars turning the 33-millilitre bottle of "U from Uruguay" the world's most expensive perfume fragrance, overcoming the Imperial Majesty created in 1872 at the request of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom valued at $1,400 per millilitre.