Born in El Salvador, Tatiana Huezo has lived in Mexico since she was four years old. She graduated from the
Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (CCC), where she has since taught classes. In 2004 she completed a master's degree in creative documentary at
Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. After her first attempts—short films such as
Arido (1992),
Tiempo cáustico (1997), Familia (2004) or
Sueño (2005)—she gained international renown with her first feature-length film,
El lugar más pequeño (2011), presented as an international premiere at
Visions du Réel in 2011 where it won the Grand Prix for the Best Feature-length Film. Her documentary,
El lugar más pequeño is a testimony to the experience of the civil war in El Salvador. It has received numerous awards and has been exhibited at more than 50 festivals around the world. In her work, she has portrayed the impunity of people before justice and institutions, humanizing the victims. About
Tempestad, Huezo said:
Tempestad, which received the 2016 Fénix Award for Best Documentary, tells the true story of Mexican women Miryam Carvajal – who spent almost a year incarcerated in
Matamoros prison, accused of human trafficking, a crime she did not commit – and Aldela Alvarado, who is looking for her missing daughter. "What happens in Mexico is close to the civil war that is taking place in Central America," explains Huezo. In 2021, after many years of focusing her craft on documentaries, Huezo premiered her first fiction feature,
Noche de Fuego (2021). In a mountain town in Mexico, Ana, Paula and Maria live a childhood that oscillates between idyllic and dreadful, as they reach adolescence, they are faced with the growing pains of womanhood, and a threatening and cruel environment. This film was based on the Jennifer Clement novel,
Prayers for the Stolen (2012). It premiered at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival and has received critical acclaim for its powerful storytelling and cinematography. ==Filmography==