Mónica Taboada-Tapia studied Anthropology and graduated in Film and Television Direction from the National University. She has presented her projects at prestigious markets and laboratories such as TorinoFilmLab, the Tribeca Film Institute Network, DocsBarcelona Latin Pitch, DocMontevideo Pitch, The New York Times Op-Docs, the Pulitzer Center and the Tribeca Film Institute International Pitch, among others. She directed the short films Fidel (2012), Two-Spirit (2021) and Bandera Roja (2023), selected at festivals such as IDFA, Palm Springs, New Filmmakers LA, Bogoshorts and FICCI, and awarded with multiple prizes. She was nominated for the Colombian Academy’s 2022 Macondo Awards and the 2022 International Documentary Association Awards with Two-Spirit, a short film distributed on The New Yorker platform. In 2021, she produced the documentary Causas Elevadas and was showrunner of the series El Placer de Escaparse del Mundo with Guerrero Films. Alma del Desierto (2024), her first feature, had its world premiere at Giornate degli Autori, where it won the Queer Lion at the 81st Venice Film Festival. The film has been selected in the Best of Fests section of the IDFA, at the Havana New Latin American Film Festival, La Mostra de São Paulo, the Rio Festival, DOC NYC, among many others. She is currently working on the films Reina del Pueblo and De la Villa, both filmed in Cartagena de Indias.