‘Prayers for the Stolen’s’ Tatiana Huezo on Her New Docu Premiering at Berlinale, ‘The Echo,’ Drops Trailer (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comAnna Marie de la Fuente To return to documentary filmmaking after her lauded debut fiction feature “Prayers for the Stolen” (“Noche de Fuego”), Tatiana Huezo laid down a set of parameters to follow. “I didn’t want to include any interviews, any narration or any voice-over,” she told Variety. “The Echo” (“El Eco”), world premiering at Berlinale’s Encounters sidebar, sometimes feels like a fictional story as a result. “After ‘Prayers..,’ I felt like returning to the language of the documentary, but most importantly, to find the extraordinary in the ordinary, in the smallest details in everyday life,” she mused.
Its trailer bows exclusively in Variety. Research on the docu took some four years. The Mexican-Salvadoran filmmaker found the titular village of El Eco in the state of Puebla, a four-hour drive from Mexico City.
After visiting several rural schools, she zeroed in on the village, captivated by its name and even more so after visiting it and meeting its small, tight community.
Together with her regular cinematographer Ernesto Pardo, her life partner, they filmed for some 18 months, staying for two, three weeks with each visit during different seasons.
Read more on variety.com