ABOUT
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Filmmaker. Through an intimate, ludic and sensory approach, their work explores junctions between body, territory and identity. Their cinema creates bonds of expanded kinship between land and its human and more-than-human inhabitants in the center of so-called México.
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.
They are in postproduction for their second feature film Our Body Is an Expanding Star (2025), 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). They are also developing their upcoming film “Capolcuahuitl”, selected in Catapulta-Ficunam (2025).
Hernández Velasco has been a recipient of México’s Jóvenes Creadores grant (2023-2024), a Macdowell fellow (2024), a Flaherty Seminar Professional Development Fellow (2019) and Full Frame’s Charles C. Guggenheim Emerging Artist Award recipient (2019). They are also a film professor.
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