ABOUT
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Through an intimate, ludic and sensory approach, her work explores junctions between body, territory and identity. Her cinema seeks to create bonds of kinship with land and its human and more-than-human defenders in the center of so-called México.
Titixe (2018), her first feature documentary in which she holds directing, editing, producing and cinematography credits, 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 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), Best Direction at Black Canvas (2023), among other prizes.
She is editing her second feature 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.
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