The Other Tom

Rodrigo Plá was born in Uruguay in 1968, and moved to Mexico in 1977. He is an acclaimed film director, producer and screenwriter of outstanding films. Plá's feature films include La Zona (Giornata degli autori section, Venice International Film Festival, 2007), The Desert Within (closing film in Critics' Week, Cannes Film Festival 2008), The Delay (Forum section, Berlinale, 2012), A Monster with a Thousand Heads (Orizzonti, Venice International Film Festival, 2015) and The Other Tom (Orizzonti, Venice International FIlm Festival 2021).

Laura Santullo was born in Uruguay and has lived in Mexico for more than 25 years. She is a film scriptwriter and a narrative writer, and she is internationally acclaimed for her work as a screenwriter, collaborating with film director, and life-partner, Rodrigo Plá. They have two sons, Martin and Lucas. Santullo has written the screenplays for all four of Plá's feature films, which are film adaptations of stories she has written. As a screenwriter, she has received several awards for her work, including three Ariels (2008, 2013, 2016) an award given by the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Mexico, and Best Screenplay Award at the 13th Athens International Film Festival (2007).