Daniel Riglos was born in Lima in 1984. There, he studied filmmaking and directed several short films, some of which won awards in national and international competitions. In 2017, with his short film Donde duermen los sueños, he won a scholarship to study at the USC film school in LA. In 2019, he won the fiction feature film competition of the DAFO, from the Ministerio de Cultura de Perú, with the project that shares the same name as his latest short film, Donde Duermen los Sueños.