Juan de Dios Marfil was born in Ceuta (Spain). He graduated from the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. He currently pursues a degree in Piano at the High School of Music Victoria Eugenia in Granada, and has completed the Master of Arts programme in Ethnomusicology at the University of Maryland (EEUU).  His films include A strange loop (2003), Who speaks in our name? (2004) and Snící krystaly (2006).