Diana Peñaloza was born in Mexico City in 1983. In 1994 she moved with her family to San Cristobal las Casas, in Chiapas where she lived for 7 years. She returns to Mexico City and studies two years of cinema at the "Universidad del Cine". In search for more professional studies in this area she is admitted at the "Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica" where she studied Directing.