María Paz González was born in Temuco in 1981. She studied journalism and later specialized in screenwriting for audiovisual and then in directing at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV in Cuba. Since 2004 she has been working in production, as an author and as an assistant director. In 2005 she made her directorial debut with the documentary First of All, which won the Best Film Award at FIDOCS. She teaches cinema at the Universidad de Artes y Ciencias Sociales of Santiago de Chile.