Elisa Miller Encinas is a Mexican award-winning film director, writer, and producer. She studied English Literature at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and film direction at the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (CCC) in Mexico City. She is the first and only Mexican female filmmaker to win the Golden Palm for a short fiction feature at the Cannes Film Festival. Her first short film Ver Llover was nationally and internationally awarded in 2007.