Lilian Mendoza

Biography

Guadalajara, 1997, founder and co-director of the art production company Acantilado Lunar. Graduated from the Department of Image and Sound of the University of Guadalajara.

In 2023, her short film When Afternoon Falls was nominated for Best Female Performance and Best Supporting Female Performance at the International Queer Film Festival in Playa del Carmen. In 2024, she premiered Home Again, a short documentary she co-directed, at the Monterrey International Film Festival. In 2025, the film was selected for the Ambulante Documentary Tour and included in the longlist for the BAFTA Student Award.

Currently, she is finishing her third short film “Todo sobre Regina RE”, project that wins the Legacy Grodman Scholarship for Graduation Projects, and the "Capital Semilla" incentive of Filma Jalisco 2023.