Valentina Maurel is a Costa Rican director who still lives in Costa Rica. She graduated in directing from the INSAS - Institut Supérieur des Arts in Brussels. Paul is Here, her graduation film, won the first prize of the Cinéfondation at the Cannes Film Festival in 2017. Lucía en el limbo, her second short, was selected for the Semaine de la Critique in Cannes in 2019, the Toronto International Film Festival and won at the Guanajuato International Film Festival.