Marcos Loayza Montoya (Bolivia)  was born in 1959. He studied cinema at the International School of Cinema and Video in Cuba. He has also studied with Alfredo Bryce Echenique and Jean Claude Carriere. With his first feature film, Cuestion de Fé, he won several awards, including the Best Opera Pima Award at the XVII New Latin American Film Festival in La Habana, (Cuba). His latest films: Escrito en el Agua and El corazón de Jesúshave been shown at international festivals worldwide.