Tatiana Smithhart

Vice-President

Tatiana grew up in South America, living in both Venezuela and Colombia. She later met David Smithhart, a US Air Force officer, and the couple married in Copenhagen, Denmark in 2002. Tatiana lived in Belgium with her husband for three years, and had the opportunity to travel throughout Europe meeting different people and experiencing a variety of fascinating cultures. Every country she visited was remarkably unique, but her favorite places remain the Greek Islands (Santorini), Austria (Salzburg) and England (Dover and Canterbury).

Later, they moved to San Antonio, Texas where had two children, Alex (5) and Veronica (3). There she found her20passion for T.V production with her first job in the U.S as a receptionist for Telemundo San Antonio. She learned the business quickly and soon realized she desired a greater challenge to apply her creative talents.

After the Telemundo experience, Tatiana decided to take an opportunity from local producer Juan Carlos Hernandez of T.V. Azteca in 2005. She became a T.V. host for the well-received local show “Soluciones,” and also did several videos productions for non-profit organizations. In 2006, Juan Carlos Hernandez and Tatiana Smithhart created the production company Eagle Eye Productions, Inc. that soon established its first movie production Secuestrada. In this film, Tatiana made her debut as both screenwriter and leading actress.

She is the founder of N.L.T.M (New Light Transformation Mujeres), a non-profit organization created to provide help for those who have experienced psychological trauma by kidnapping, rape or any other violen cause.

The movie Secuestrada was based on Tatiana’s true-life story. When she was 14 years old, she was kidnapped and raped by a sadistic serial killer, and, incredibly, survived the horrific ordeal. Her amazing recovery from the experience gave her the courage to write the movie script with the goal of helping others to heal. “I know how hard is to go through such a bad experience like this, but the only thing that can make you come out of20it is to talk about it, and know you are not alone. You must get up as many times as necessary”.