Born in 1972, she is a Mexican-El Salvadoran filmmaker graduated from the CCC Film Training Center, in Mexico, and has a masters degree in creative documentary from the Pompeu Fabra University, in Barcelona. She made the documentary features The Tiniest Place (2011), awarded at film festivals like Lima, Mar del Plata and Visions du Reél, and Tempestad (2016), presented at Berlinale. Prayers for the Stolen is her first fictional feature.
