Tania Hermida
A native of Cuenca, Ecuador, Tania Hermida studied film direction at Cuba’s International Film and TV School of San Antonio de las Banos, creative writing at Madrid’s School of Letters, the aesthetics of cinema at the University of Valladolid, and earned a master’s in cultural studies from the University of Azuay. Her features include HOW MUCH FURTHER (2006), winner of the Havana Film Festival’s Opera Prima award and the Montreal World Film Festival’s Silver Zenith, and In the NAME OF THE GIRL (2011).