Rodrigo Plá was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1968. Plá studied cinema in Mexico City. His feature debut, the thriller "The Zone" (2007), presented at the 31st Mostra, won best debut at the Venice Film Festival. "The Desert Within" (2008), his second feature, was exhibited at the 32nd Mostra and was the closing film at the Critics Week at the Cannes Film Festival. He also made a segment of the collective film "Revolución" (2010), presented at the 34th Mostra, and the features "The Delay" (2012), presented at the 36th Mostra and awarded at the Berlinale, and "A Monster with a Thousand Heads" (2015).
Laura Santullo was born in Montevideo in 1970. She is an awarded novelist and screenwriter, and wrote the screenplay of all the feature films directed by Rodrigo Plá. "The Other Tom" is her feature film directorial debut.