Natalia was born in Costa Rica in 1984, graduated in Audiovisual Production at the University of Costa Rica and got a Master in Theory and Practice of Creative Documentary at the Autonomous University in Barcelona, Spain in 2011. MOVING SO SLOWLY (2019) is her directorial debut and had its World Premiere at IDFA 2019. Natalia is an alum of DocStation Berlinale Talents, Coproduction Meetings of Guadalajara, Locarno Industry Academy and IDFA Academy. She’s a 2021 Sundance Institute Documentary Fund grantee. She's a programmer at the Costa Rica IFF and Imagine Science Films FF.