ABOUT
THEY/THEM, SHE/HERS
Filmmaker, film educator and occasional programmer based in Ciudad de México.
Through intimate, collaborative, sensory, and speculative gestures, their films entangle and reimagine body, territory and identity beyond colonial legacies in the center of so-called México. Through cinema, they seek to nurture expanded bonds of kinship between land, human and more-than-human beings, while honoring the line of peasants, healers, bricklayers and artisans in their family.
Titixe (2018),their first feature doc, has been selected in more than fifty 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 2022, they 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, they also premiered “Eclipsis”, a short film produced by Mexico’s National University Cinematheque (Filmoteca UNAM) and awarded Best Experimental Film at Ann Arbor Film Festival (2023), Best Direction at Black Canvas (2023), among other prizes.
Their second filmm Our Body Is an Expanding Star (2025), is co-directed with their brother Semillites Hernández Velasco. This project has been supported by FOCINE-IMCINE (2021) and Firelight Media’s William Greaves Fund (United States, 2021). It will have its World Premiere at IDFA’s Envision Competition on November 2025.
They are currently developing their upcoming film “Capolcuahuitl”, selected in Catapulta-Ficunam (2025), Procine Desarrollo (2025) and written in residency at Macdowell Fellowship (2024).
They have been a recipient of México’s Jóvenes Creadores grant (2023-2024), a Flaherty Seminar Professional Development Fellow (2019) and Full Frame’s Charles C. Guggenheim Emerging Artist Award recipient (2019).
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