Gabriel Rojas Vera was born in Bogotá on October 15, 1977. He graduated from the Emmanuel d’Alzon School in 1995 and went on to study film and television at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, specializing in playwriting and screenwriting before graduating in 2005. His directorial debut, Karen llora en un bus, had its world premier on May 13, 2011 in the Forum section of the 2011 Berlin Film Festival