Nicolás Pereda was born in Mexico City and holds an MFA in film from York University in Toronto His films include the features Perpetuum Mobile 2009 Summer of Goliath 2010 Greatest Hits 2012 Killing Strangers 2013 The Absent 2014 Minotaur 2015 and My Skin Luminous 2019 and Fauna 2020 is his latest film His work explores the everyday through fractured and elliptical narratives using fiction and documentary tools