Born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Edgar Rafael Rodríguez Lara graduated in 2021 from the Bachelor of Audiovisual Arts at the University of Guadalajara. He has been dedicated to filmmaking since 2016. He has participated as an editor, script consultant, post-production coordinator and director of photography in more than fifteen short films, as well as commercials and video clips; Among them, he was editor for the short films Otra Noche Sola (Lonely Nights, Sofia Cano, 2021), selected within the NEOMEX Exhibition of the Mexico City International Short Film Festival (SHORTS México), and Celeste (Sebastián Hernández Álvarez, 2021), official selection of the Tequila International Film Festival (FICTEQ). In The Transparent Illusion, he also worked in the editing and post-production of 3D visual effects and traditional 2D animation techniques.