Alma Herrera-Pazmiño is a film editor and creative raised in San Francisco, CA based out of NYC. She recently edited “Louis Armstrong’s Black and Blues” for Imagine Documentaries and Apple TV. Her credits as an assistant editor include: Barbara Kopple’s Emmy nominated documentary Desert One which premiered at TIFF 2019. She has worked as an assistant editor for PBS News hour, Telling Pictures, Frontline Media, Zocalo Media, Multitude Films, Story Syndicate and MegTV.
Alma has been 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 an organizer and youth development arts administrator. She worked on various filmmaking roles as a member at the Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC) and a fellow in the Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project (QWOCMAP). Her love for story is driven by capturing the rituals that rise at the intersection of grief and joy. Celebrating the resilience of the human experience.
When she is not editing feature documentaries she is DJ'ng for her community or documenting cultural events such as her short form series called Tacofornia Love. Rhythm and blending flavors are at the center of her working aesthetic.
Currently, Alma is editing a feature untitled documentary about the clown prince of hip-hop, the late Biz Markie for Mass Appeal.