María Alché is an Argentine director, script writer and actress. She studied filmmaking at ENERC, where she teaches. She wrote and directed the feature film Familia Sumergida (A Family Submerged), which won Best Film in the Horizontes Latinos section of the San Sebastián Film Festival and Best First Feature Film at the Gothenburg Film Festival, and was presented at the Locarno, Havana, Jeonju and Viennale festivals, among others. Currently, she is developing her new project Te amo y hoy todo es hermoso (I Love You and Today Everything Is Beautiful) and she is writing the documentary Chocobar.

Benjamín Naishtat studied film at Universidad del Cine, Buenos Aires before being granted a Radcliffe / Film Studies Center Fellowship from Harvard. In 2014, he wrote and directed Historia del miedo, which premiered in Competition at the Berlin festival. Benjamín wrote and directed El movimiento (The Movement) in 2015, which premiered at the Locarno festival and won both the Best Argentine Film at the Festival de Mar del Plata and the Jury Award at the Valdivia Festival. He wrote and directed Rojo (2018), which was selected in Competition at the San Sebastián Film Festival, where it was awarded with the Concha de Plata for Best Direction, Best Cinematography, and Best Actor. Currently, he is working on an adaptation of Los Siete Locos by Roberto Arlt.