Tatiana Huezo

Mexican-Salvadoran filmmaker Tatiana Huezo graduated from the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (CCC) and has a Master Degree in Creative Documentary from the Universidad Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona.

She gained an international reputation with her first feature film, THE TINIEST PLACE (2011), which screened at more than 80 international festivals. Her work has been widely recognized around the world and acknowledged by the Mexican Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences with four Ariel awards, among them Best Documentary and Best Director for TEMPESTAD, which premiered in the Forum Section at the 66th Berlinale in 2016. TEMPESTAD was selected by the Mexican Academy to represent Mexico in the Academy Awards and the Goya Awards, where it was nominated to compete for Best Ibero-American film.

For the last few years, she has been teaching independently, giving conferences and imparting workshops in academic contexts like ECAM in Madrid, University of California Santa Barbara, The Green House in Israel, Georgetown University as well as the CCC, among others. Her academic activities also include editing the book “El Viaje, rutas y caminos andados para llegar a otro planeta” produced by the “CCC” and DocumentaMadrid.

She recently directed her first fiction film, NOCHE DE FUEGO.