Liliana Guadalupe López López, known as Liliana K'an.
Daughter of a Tsotsil father and a Tseltal mother in Chiapas, Mexico, she is originally from San Juan Chamula and is a first-time mother. She completed her Bachelor's Degree in Intercultural Communication at the Intercultural University of Chiapas (UNICH). She has training in visual arts from the University of Sciences and Arts of Chiapas (UNICACH) and has taken workshops in audiovisual production, photography, scriptwriting and editing, among other subjects.
In 2014, she made a first documentary exercise, "Ak'riox (Guiadora de caminos)" in the framework of a workshop granted by the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (CCC). “Mon Belly” is her first short film, it won the Stimulus for Audiovisual Creation in Mexico and Central America for Indigenous and Afro- descendant Communities (ECAMC) and the FOCINE Fund for postproduction, both awarded by the Mexican Film Institute (IMCINE).