Samuel Hernandez
Director
A graduate of the Escuela Veracruzana de Cine Luis Buñuel, he began his career in Xalapa with the 2019 Cinematography Diploma, which resulted in the short films Mano Negra (2019) and El hijo de las estrellas (2020). In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, he entered the EVCLB, where he made the short films No se acabarán mis flores (2022), screened at Cumbre Tajín 2022; La máscara de la muerte roja (2022), based on the story by Edgar Allan Poe; El contrato (2023); El catrín (2025); and El coleccionista (2025), his thesis short film, a work of cosmic horror fiction inspired by the literature of H. P. Lovecraft and the disappearance of Jacobo Grinberg, currently on the festival circuit.