Natalia León was born in Mexico City in 1997. She left Mexico at the age of 17 to study at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, where she specialised in animation. Passionate about writing and storytelling, she decided to complete her training at The School of Visual Arts in New York, where she studied screenwriting and directing. In 2021, during her final year at ENSAD, she wrote and developed the project Como si la tierra se las hubiera tragado, her first short film, produced by XBO Films.