María Gamboa is a Colombian filmmaker from Bogotá. Her first feature film, Mateo, premiered in the Miami Film Festival in 2014, where it won the Grand Jury Prize for Best First Feature and the Best Screenwriting Award. The film screened in more than 40 international festivals, where it won 14 awards, and was selected by the Colombian Film Academy to represent Colombia at the Oscar Awards as Best Foreign Film in 2015. María directed the television series Revelados (2007 & 2008) for Colombia’s public television channel Canal Trece, and worked as a second unit director for the series La cacica (2017) for Caracol Televisión and as a third unit director for De brutas, nada (2020 & 2023) for Sony Pictures Television. María directed several episodes of seasons 1 to 3 of Eva Lasting (2023 & 2024), a series produced by Caracol Televisión for Netflix. She also directed several episodes of the series Medusa (2025) for Netflix. In 2024, she won, together with Mateo Stivelberg, the India Catalina Award for Best Director for season 1 of Eva Lasting. María graduated in film and television production from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, studied history and film theory in La Sorbonne, and took a yearlong workshop in screenwriting at the Atelier Scénario of La Fémis film school in Paris. She is currently writing Another Sunny Day, her second feature film.

Another Sunny Day — Lucia’s reckless spending has wrecked her marriage and destroyed her ability to hold her family together. Her addiction to debt and insecure thinking threaten to ruin her, unless she regains faith in herself and comes to terms with her behavior and the consequences it has brought about.