Anais Taracena, documentary filmmaker and producer with a master’s degree in Political Science. She has directed shorts films that have been screened at international festivals.
In Guatemala, she works as a filmmaker with human rights organizations and as a cultural manager. In 2019 she participated in the Berlinale Talents and in the IDFA Academy School as an emerging director. The silence of the Mole, Anais’s first feature film premiered at Hot Docs 2021 and won the Tim Hetherington Award at Sheffield Doc/Fest 2021, and the Best Documentary Prize at Malaga Film Festival 2022.