Directing

Dafne Herrera

Born October 23, 2000 · Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico (age 25)

Dafne Herrera is a film student at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Cinematográficas (ENAC) of the Universidad Nacional Autonóma de México (UNAM). A resident of the state of Querétaro, Dafne moved to Mexico City in 2019, the year in which she entered the Bachelor of Science in Communication at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of UNAM. During that period, Dafne attended the course "Mexican…

Known For

The Mermaid

The Mermaid · 2024

MovieDocumentary

A trip that the author makes to a distant beach trying to find the place where his grandfather made a painting years ago.

Return

Gerardo returns home with a pack of dogs barking in the background on a dark night. Inside his house he will find an altar with flowers and orange lights. Now it will be the silence that will guide his steps to find out what is on that altar.

Ángel

Ángel, a small 5-year-old, watches as her mother takes care of her grandmother who is sick with terminal cancer. As the relationships around him start to deteriorate, Ángel tries to help her grandmother…

Memory for a Worker

Memory for a Worker · 2024

Memory for a Worker

MovieDocumentary

A journey through the day of a worker in the form of memories and sensations, through which we will reflect on the slow passage of a life dedicated to work.

ALHIVE

MovieDocumentary

One morning, Leonardo Galicia wakes up with a dull pain and an intense fever. After a pandemic experience that made him aware of his mortality, the last thing Leonardo expected was an HIV-reactive result.  The illness caused by the virus takes hold of Leonardo's body and forces him to take an indefinite break while recovering in a hospital. There, he meets a mysterious young man, Augusto. By sharing common thoughts, hopes, and dreams, the two will find refuge in each other's arms.

Good Morning, Margarita

Good Morning, Margarita · 2024

Good Morning, Margarita

MovieDocumentary

«All my mom’s teeth fell out, I’m only going for about three months and I return» was what Pancho dreamed of fulfilling when he crossed the US border without papers, but an accident during the trip transformed his life and his aunt Margarita.

Maps from Within

Maps from Within · 2026

Maps from Within

MovieDocumentary

During a drawing workshop, a girl traces on the wall of her room the memory of her sexual abuse; a young woman recalls the night in which the deception of those she once called friends turned into harassment. By sharing the stories with other girls and women, they realise that these are not isolated events but fragments of a shared wound.

The Night

The Night · 2023

MovieDramaFantasy

Luisa and her sister Estela will play hide and seek during a particular night. They both have suffered an important loss in their family, the mourning and grief will be present inside their house all night long.

Filmography

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The Mermaid

The Mermaid · 2024

MovieDocumentary

A trip that the author makes to a distant beach trying to find the place where his grandfather made a painting years ago.

Producer

Return

Gerardo returns home with a pack of dogs barking in the background on a dark night. Inside his house he will find an altar with flowers and orange lights. Now it will be the silence that will guide his steps to find out what is on that altar.

Assistant Director

Ángel

Ángel, a small 5-year-old, watches as her mother takes care of her grandmother who is sick with terminal cancer. As the relationships around him start to deteriorate, Ángel tries to help her grandmother…

Editor

Memory for a Worker

Memory for a Worker · 2024

Memory for a Worker

MovieDocumentary

A journey through the day of a worker in the form of memories and sensations, through which we will reflect on the slow passage of a life dedicated to work.

Director of Photography

ALHIVE

MovieDocumentary

One morning, Leonardo Galicia wakes up with a dull pain and an intense fever. After a pandemic experience that made him aware of his mortality, the last thing Leonardo expected was an HIV-reactive result.  The illness caused by the virus takes hold of Leonardo's body and forces him to take an indefinite break while recovering in a hospital. There, he meets a mysterious young man, Augusto. By sharing common thoughts, hopes, and dreams, the two will find refuge in each other's arms.

Assistant Camera

Good Morning, Margarita

Good Morning, Margarita · 2024

Good Morning, Margarita

MovieDocumentary

«All my mom’s teeth fell out, I’m only going for about three months and I return» was what Pancho dreamed of fulfilling when he crossed the US border without papers, but an accident during the trip transformed his life and his aunt Margarita.

Director

Maps from Within

Maps from Within · 2026

Maps from Within

MovieDocumentary

During a drawing workshop, a girl traces on the wall of her room the memory of her sexual abuse; a young woman recalls the night in which the deception of those she once called friends turned into harassment. By sharing the stories with other girls and women, they realise that these are not isolated events but fragments of a shared wound.

Sound Recordist

The Night

The Night · 2023

MovieDramaFantasy

Luisa and her sister Estela will play hide and seek during a particular night. They both have suffered an important loss in their family, the mourning and grief will be present inside their house all night long.

Sound Recordist

The Good Being

The Good Being · 2023

In the middle of a trip, Rubí, an eight-year-old girl, discovers within herself a powerful desire to eat roses. The rigidity and severity of her mother forces her to act in secret, until her desire manages to transform into something else.

Assistant Camera