Tania Ximena is a Mexican visual artist and filmmaker from Ciudad Sahagún, Hidalgo. Her work is the result of extensive field research. In 2022, she joined Mexico’s National System of Art Creators. She has received the Young Creators grant from Mexico’s National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA) three times and has been awarded the Mexican Film Promotion Program from the Mexican Film Institute (IMCINE) twice — for screenwriting and for production. Her first feature film, Pobo’Tzu’ (White Night) (2021), won awards such as the Grand Jury Prize Kaleidoscope at the DOC NYC documentary film festival and the Fósforo Award from the Film Critics Association at the International Film Festival of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (FICUNAM). Tania was part of the tenth Colombian Antarctic expedition and filmed portions of her video installation and short film La marcha del liquen on the white continent. She a is co-founder of APECS Mexico (Association of Polar Early Career Scientists).

Mayora [co-written with Carlos Santiago Amézquita] — A young mountain police officer is violently struck by lightning. The incident leaves her with a condition that modern medicine cannot understand or cure. However, in her region, tradition holds that being struck by lightning is a call to join an ancient community devoted to venerating the spirits of volcanoes.