Rubén Mendoza was born in 1980. Director and screenwriter of eight short films, as well as editor of the latest films by renowned filmmaker Luis Ospina. His debut feature La sociedad del semáforo, won more than 15 international awards including, in its development stage, the Carolina Foundation Screenwriting Grant, the Screenwriting Stimulus from the Colombian Film Development Fund (FDC), a grant to attend the TYPA Foundation's screenwriting lab in Colón, Argentina, the Amiens Festival Award for Project Development and the Ibermedia Program's Stimulus for Project Development.