Michelle Garza Cervera is a Mexican director and screenwriter who graduated from the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (CCC) in Mexico City and Goldsmiths, University of London. Her debut feature film, Huesera, premiered at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival, where it won the Best New Narrative Director Award and the Nora Ephron Award, and went on to win more than 40 international awards and four Ariel Awards from the Mexican Academy of Film Arts and Sciences, including Best First Feature and Best Original Screenplay. A Sundance Momentum and Sundance-Universal Fellow in 2023, she is currently developing her next feature film, Ornamento, based on the novel by Juan Cárdenas, co-written with Alejandra Moffat and produced by RT Features. Michelle is part of the Mandíbula series project as a director and producer, currently in development with Universal International Studios, based on the novel by Mónica Ojeda and produced by La Corriente del Golfo and Eat The Cat. Michelle directed the remake of The Hand That Rocks the Cradle for 20th Century Studios, which recently premiered on Hulu and Disney+.

Michelle was a participant in Cine Qua Non Lab’s 2020 Taller de Revisión de Guion lab with Huesera.

Cadáver de viento — Gaby, a claustrophobic optometrist exhausted from taking care of her sick mother, must confront ghosts from her past after the recovery of her father’s body, trapped decades ago in the mine where he worked.