is a Honduran director and producer. His work focuses on documentary cinema. She is co-founder and general manager of Terco Producciones.
Katia has received numerous awards for her work. The short film Berta Vive (2016) won 8 awards of international recognition. Among them a special mention of the jury in the competition of Ibero-American short films of the Guadalajara International Film Festival, being the first time that a Honduran work gained recognition in this festival.
Biography
He studied Baccalaureate in Graphic Arts at the School of Fine Arts of Honduras and then moved to Mexico where he studied Communication at the National School of Plastic Arts of Mexico (ENAP-UNAM). During his years of study in Mexico he linked himself to the Frente Farabundo Martí para Liberación Nacional (FMLN) joining the Radio and Television Collective of the Radio Venceremos System serving as an archive and editing assistant. As part of her work she created productions such as Central America a Defiant Volcano (1985) and Time of Victoria (1988). At the same time, she served as news editor for news channels Notimex, Imevisión and CNN En Español, especially for war correspondents in Central America, Epigmenio Ibarra and Ronnie Lovler.
After the signing of the Peace Accords in 1992, he moved to San Salvador working in the area of advertising. Then in 1998, he decided to move to Argentina to study Film Management at the Eliseo Subiela School of Cinematography and graduated in 2002. A year later, in 2003 he returned to Honduras where he co-founded Terco Producciones.7
