Martín Deus was born in La Plata, Argentina, in 1979. He studied filmmaking at the International Film School of San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. His shorts have participated at more than fifty international film festivals, such as Sundance, Seattle, Los Angeles Latino, Reeling Chicago, Frameline San Francisco, Biarritz, Clermont Ferrand, Sapporo and Rencontres de Cinéma d'Amérique Latine de Toulouse. He is also a music videos director. My best friend (2018) is his first feature film.