Mauricio Cuervo
Writing
Known For

Bonifacio is a clumsy and shoddy countryman. After losing everything, he travels to the city with his little daughter Hilda and their piggie Tulipán, to chase his dream, everyone has a calling and his is the best one: being a truck driver.
My Dad the Truck

The unscrupulousness of members of the Colombian army destroys the love between twenty-year-old Roland and Lady in El Paraíso, an impoverished neighborhood of Bogotá.
Silence in Paradise

The journalist Alvaro Mendoza investigates the murder of his best friend and colleague. With the help of a journalism student, they discover the plan of the guerilla, the mafia and the military to attack the Colombian justice palace.
Before the fire

A retired teacher fears the world is coming to an end when his jobless son is abandoned by his wife after having a baby.
Chronicle of the End of the World

The youngest daughter of a family of sloths reconstructs their story. A metaphor about the sometimes wild nature that inhabits family environments.
It's all the Salt's Fault

While dealing with a strange being that lives inside her, a woman seeks to reconcile with her sister over an incident from their adolescence.