For director Tatiana Huezo, her debut feature Prayers for the Stolen (Noche de Fuego) was largely a balancing act of telling a coming-of-age story of young girls while also conveying a story of corruption, drugs and human trafficking in the Mexican countryside.“I think definitely one of the biggest challenges in doing this was in trying to relate the story in a very violent context through the eyes of a child and through the eyes of a little girl who is exposed to brutality as a woman,” Huezo said through an interpreter during the Netflix movie’s panel at Deadline’s Contenders Film: International awards-season event. “I’ve been treading this context of childhood as a mother watching my child growing and discovering so it was really
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