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ABOUT



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Filmmaker born in Ciudad de México. Through an intimate, ludic and sensory approach, her work explores junctions between body, territory, nature, legacy and identity. Her cinema seeks to keep company to the land she inhabits and its defenders.

Titixe (2018), her first feature documentary in which she holds directing, editing, producing and cinematography credits, has been selected in more than forty international film festivals including Festa del Cinema di Roma, FICUNAM, Trieste, Málaga, Black Canvas, BlackStar, Full Frame, etc. The film has received more than 10 prizes and mentions.

In 2019, she was selected as a Flaherty Seminar – Professional Development Fellow (Flaherty Seminar, NY) and was awarded the Charles C. Guggenheim Emerging Artist Award (Full Frame FF, NC).

In 2022, she debuted as an opera stage director for Opera Lafayette’s Silvain which premiered in NYC’s Museo del Barrio and Washington DC’s Kennedy Center. That year, she also premiered “Eclipsis”, in which she holds directing, editing and producing credits, a short film produced by Mexico’s National University Cinematheque (Filmoteca UNAM) and awarded Best Experimental Film at Ann Arbor Film Festival (2023).

She is working on her second film Our Body Is an Expanding Star (2024), co-directed with Semillites Hernández Velasco. This project has been supported by FOCINE-IMCINE (2021)and Firelight Media’s William Greaves Fund (United States, 2021).

Hernández Velasco is currently a recipient of México’s Jóvenes Creadores grant (2023-2024) and a Macdowell fellow for autumn 2024 with her new film in development Macpalxochitl (hand-flower-tree). She combines filmmaking with film teaching and programming. 



SELECTED FEATURES IN PRESS
1 / 2 / 3 

DOWNLOAD PORTRAIT HERE

TITIXE

A mourning tree, dancing sprouts, ghosts, stories and forgotten seeds. This is a Mexican family’s very last attempt to cultivate their land.


DOCUMENTARY / MÉXICO / 62' / 2018 / DCP - 5.1

The last peasant of a family has died and with him, all wisdom to till the soil has been lost. Without experience, his daughter and granddaughter will attempt a last traditional harvest to try to convince Grandma, the widow of the peasant, to keep their plot of land. Together they will uncover the leftovers (locally known as the titixe) of this man and his world: a mourning tree, dancing sprouts, the language of clouds, ghosts, stories and the endless menace of losing the crops to a tempest. This is an intimate mosaic of the last harvest of a Mexican family, in a country that has forsaken its rural origins.





Directed, photographed, edited and produced by Tania Hernández Velasco
With Yolanda Velasco, Concepción Juárez, Valentín Velasco, Tío Abel Velasco, Abel Velasco
Co-producer: Rosa Galguera Ortega
Executive producers: Nael Gharzeddine, Ivan Lowenberg
Sound design & direct sound: Mariana Rodríguez Alcocer
 Co-editing: Eduardo Palenque
Original music: Jorge Bolado
Additional music: Mario Bringas
Sound mix: Manuel Aguilar
Music supervisor: Fernando Heftye
Graphic Design: Juan Arturo García
Poster illustration: Dulce Ayala
 


SELECTED PRESS (SPANISH): 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5

SELECTED PRESS (ENGLISH): 1 / 2 / 3

POSTER: HI-RES / LOW-RES

STILLS: 1 / 2 /3 / 4

DIRECTOR'S PORTRAIT: HERE

EXHIBITIONS IN FESTIVALS: HERE






OUR BODY IS AN EXPANDING STAR

(NUESTRO CUERPO ES UNA ESTRELLA QUE SE EXPANDE)

Two siblings make an imaginary pilgrimage through the memory and geography of their Brown bodies in order to discover their beauty and dignity. As they journey through the seas of their stretch marks, the fields of their hair, and the constellations of their moles, their ancestors emerge to accompany them.




MÉXICO / DOCUMENTARY / 4K-16MM / IN PROGRESS 
Film supported by IMCINE-FOCINE (2021) and the William Greaves - Firelight Media Fund (2021).
Co-directed by Tania Hernández Velasco and Semillites Hernández Velasco.

Selected by Documentary Pitching @ DocMontevideo 2023 (winner of IDFA’s Spotlight Award, DokLeipzig Award and MiradasDoc Award).

Produced by Viana González and Tania Hernández Velasco
Written by Semillites Hernández Velasco and Tania Hernández Velasco
4K Cinematography- Sandra Luz López Barroso
16mm Cinematography- Elena Pardo
Editing - Diana Toucedo, Tania Hernández Velasco



Selected by Documentary Pitching @ DocMontevideo 2023 (winner of IDFA’s Spotlight Award, DokLeipzig Award and MiradasDoc Award).

ECLIPSIS


A recently discovered monarch butterfly subespecies (Danaus plexippus eclipsis) possesses strange toxines in their scales that provoke powerful nervous alterations in their predators. 

Eclipsis is a sci-fi short film that especulates –narratively and sensorialy– around that which happens to human beings if they enter in contact with this imaginary butterfly. Intertwining the vivid microscopic colors and textures in 4K, the sway of human body registered in Super 8mm and archival footage, this film imagines a multiespecies crossroads.





MÉXICO / FICTION / 16’/ 4K - SUPER 8MM / 2022


Produced by Mexico’s Autonomous National University’s Cinematheque (Filmoteca UNAM) and Síntesis UNAM, in coproduction with Estudios Churubusco. 

Written, directed, produced and co-edited by Tania Hernández Velasco
Hugo Villa & Juan Ayala - Executive production

In collaboration with
Aura Arreola - Choreography, performance and music
Inés Gutiérrez (CirrinaLab) - Microscopic images
Sandra Luz López Barroso - Director of photography
Eduardo Palenque - Editing
Mariana Rodríguez Alcocer - Sound design and direct sound
Eduardo Gaytán & Felipe Meléndez - Sound mix
Kuru Lozano - Production manager
Fernanda Becerril & Gabriela Álvarez - Line producers
Semillitxs Hernández Velasco - Graphic design
Yolanda Velasco - Catering



STILLS: 1 / 2 / 3



EXHIBITION IN FILM FESTIVALS


- BLACK CANVAS FILM FESTIVAL (México) - Best Director Award (México Dentro del Canvas section) 
- ANN ARBOR EXPERIMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL (US) - Best Experimental Film 
- MÉXICO CITY’S VIDEODANCE FILM FESTIVAL (México) - Best Director Award
- MCKINVILLE FILM FESTIVAL (US) - Best Experimental Film
- EL ALEPH ARTE Y CIENCIA (MX)
- AMBULANTE (México)
- ULTRACINEMA (México)
- MUESTRA MÍNIMA (México)
- OAXACACINE (México)
- BLUE DANUBE FILM FESTIVAL (Austria)
- VANCOUVER LATIN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL (Canada)
- GIRONA FILM FESTIVAL (Spain)
- DRUNKEN FILM FESTIVAL (US)
- VERACRUZ’S FILMOTHEQUE FESTIVAL (México)
- INTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF EXPERIMENTAL FICTION FESTIVAL AND SYMPOSIUM (UK)
- TRINIDAD Y TOBAGO FILM FESTIVAL (Trinidad y Tobago)
- SALT LAKE CITY’S FILM SOCIETY SCREENDANCE CULTURAL TOUR (US) - SPOTLIGHT ON TANIA HERNÁNDEZ VELASCO’S WORK
- TERRAFILME FESTIVAL (México)
- BENSON FILM FESTIVAL: Ultracinema Programme (US)
- MIRADA CORTA (México)
- CUCALORUS FILM FESTIVAL (US)
- POINT ARENA FILM FESTIVAL (US)

IT’S BEEN A WHILE SINCE I DON’T DREAM THAT I FLY

(HACE MUCHO QUE NO SUEÑO QUE VUELO)

A short video poem about stones and the weight of some love stories.



DOCUMENTARY / HD/ 7'/ COLOR / 2014


Written, edited, photographed and produced by Tania Hernández Velasco.

Premiered in ZagrebDox 2014, PhoneDox Competition.

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