Alma Herrera-Pazmiño is a documentary editor, filmmaker and DJ from San Francisco, CA based out of NYC. Her editing credits include “All Up In the Biz” for Showtime / Paramount+ (Tribeca 2023) and “Louis Armstrong’s Black and Blues” for Apple TV (TIFF 2022). Her most recent short film she wrote and directed “#LAGAYBIE” premiered at the Queer Women of Color film festival (2023). A coming of age narrative that follows a young woman's journey of self acceptance through socially prescribed gender performances.
Alma has been a DOC NYC 40 under 40 recipient (2023), a fellow in the Sundance art of the Edit Fellowship (2021-2022) and the Karen Schmeer Diversity in the Edit Room Fellowship (2020-2021). Alma’s pedagogy is rooted in her upbringing in the Mission District of San Francisco, CA where she worked as a housing rights organizer and youth development arts administrator. In her work she investigates the question: What are the rituals created at the intersection of grief and Joy? She’s known for documenting the resilience of the human experience through medicine, music and culinary memory.
When she's not editing she's DJing or making video haikus. Rhythm and blending flavors are at the center of her working aesthetic. Currently, Alma is developing a retrospective documentary about cultural identity with the environment through the andean diaspora’s reciprocity with the land.
She is an affiliate with Brown Girls Doc Mafia, BIPOC DOC Editors and the National Association of Latinos Arts and Culture