Mateo Herrera

Mateo Herrera

Nacimiento : , Quito, Ecuador

Historia

Mateo Herrera (Quito,1973) is an Ecuadorian director. His career is divided between his film and musical projects. With his two first fiction features "Alegría de una vez" (2001) and "Jaque" (2003) he toured many film festivals. His documentary "Comité" (2005) won several international awards such as the Prix George Beauregard from the Fid Marseille festival; his third fiction feature "Impulso" (2009) won the Grande Prix Coup de Cœur from the Rencontres Cinémas d'Amérique Latine de Toulouse. From 2013 to 2016 he directed and premiered three films: The feature "Tinta Sangre" (2013), the documentaries "Resonancia (2013) and "El "Panóptico Ciego" (2015), and feature"Chuquiragua" (2016).

Perfil

Mateo Herrera

Películas

Chuquiragua
Writer
Agustín escaped to the moor to finish his thesis, he spends his days writing, feeding himself and giving small walks through a place covered by scrubland, steep cliffs and abyss that remain hidden behind an almost permanent fog. Everything changes when Lucía and her boyfriend Santiago arrive and set up their tent next to Augustín’s. What began as a few quiet days in the countryside gradually become a silent nightmare.
Chuquiragua
Director
Agustín escaped to the moor to finish his thesis, he spends his days writing, feeding himself and giving small walks through a place covered by scrubland, steep cliffs and abyss that remain hidden behind an almost permanent fog. Everything changes when Lucía and her boyfriend Santiago arrive and set up their tent next to Augustín’s. What began as a few quiet days in the countryside gradually become a silent nightmare.
Sed
Editor
Sara is 23 years old and is blind. One morning she goes to her country house accompanied by her boyfriend Jose Luis, her cousin Carolina and her boyfriend Pedro. At first the trip seems to be quite fun, but there is a strange energy in this country house as a result of a very dark past. As time goes by, the truth begins to unfold, and the intentions of each of the characters engages them in unexpected carnal desires. All this happens around Sara's blindness.
El Panóptico Ciego
Writer
The documentary chronicles the 139 years of the ex penitentiary García Moreno in Quito, Ecuador, and traces left by the inmates to be transferred to the new prison in the province of Cotopaxi.
El Panóptico Ciego
Director
The documentary chronicles the 139 years of the ex penitentiary García Moreno in Quito, Ecuador, and traces left by the inmates to be transferred to the new prison in the province of Cotopaxi.
Tinta Sangre
Writer
A black comedy that portraits a chain of six romances united by chance. In Tinta Sangre the protagonists are the city of Quito, its characters and its inner world. Loves and heartbreak are the thread of this film, and the constant question that all of them ask is why we call it love when we mean addiction.
Tinta Sangre
Director
A black comedy that portraits a chain of six romances united by chance. In Tinta Sangre the protagonists are the city of Quito, its characters and its inner world. Loves and heartbreak are the thread of this film, and the constant question that all of them ask is why we call it love when we mean addiction.
Resonancia
Writer
Raul Lara, an Ecuadorian luthier, works around seven months in the construction of each instrument. Sometimes staying for four consecutive months inside his workshop, place in which time and space are surreal. The guitar becomes alive and receives its soul in here.
Resonancia
Director
Raul Lara, an Ecuadorian luthier, works around seven months in the construction of each instrument. Sometimes staying for four consecutive months inside his workshop, place in which time and space are surreal. The guitar becomes alive and receives its soul in here.
Impulso
Sound
Jessica is a rebellious 17-year-old living with her aunt and grandmother in Quito. Her absent mother has stopped sending money, causing rifts within the family. When she decides to search for the father she's never met, she ends up in the country home of her father's brother and his wife, where the mirrors are always covered and the air is thick with fog and mystery.
Impulso
Editor
Jessica is a rebellious 17-year-old living with her aunt and grandmother in Quito. Her absent mother has stopped sending money, causing rifts within the family. When she decides to search for the father she's never met, she ends up in the country home of her father's brother and his wife, where the mirrors are always covered and the air is thick with fog and mystery.
Impulso
Producer
Jessica is a rebellious 17-year-old living with her aunt and grandmother in Quito. Her absent mother has stopped sending money, causing rifts within the family. When she decides to search for the father she's never met, she ends up in the country home of her father's brother and his wife, where the mirrors are always covered and the air is thick with fog and mystery.
Impulso
Writer
Jessica is a rebellious 17-year-old living with her aunt and grandmother in Quito. Her absent mother has stopped sending money, causing rifts within the family. When she decides to search for the father she's never met, she ends up in the country home of her father's brother and his wife, where the mirrors are always covered and the air is thick with fog and mystery.
Impulso
Director
Jessica is a rebellious 17-year-old living with her aunt and grandmother in Quito. Her absent mother has stopped sending money, causing rifts within the family. When she decides to search for the father she's never met, she ends up in the country home of her father's brother and his wife, where the mirrors are always covered and the air is thick with fog and mystery.
Alfaro Vive Carajo: Del sueño al caos
Sound Mixer
Documentary regarding Ecuadorian militant group cum political party "Alfaro Vive Carajo" from their start in the 80s to their unexpected return to action in 2007.
El Comité
Editor
A documentary chronicle of the prisoners’ takeover of the Garcia Moreno Penitentiary in Quito, Ecuador. The prisoners find they suddenly have a voice after they take 360 people hostage, and a pattern of abuse and corruption by the guards toward the prisoners becomes clear after lengthy negotiations.
El Comité
Writer
A documentary chronicle of the prisoners’ takeover of the Garcia Moreno Penitentiary in Quito, Ecuador. The prisoners find they suddenly have a voice after they take 360 people hostage, and a pattern of abuse and corruption by the guards toward the prisoners becomes clear after lengthy negotiations.
El Comité
Director
A documentary chronicle of the prisoners’ takeover of the Garcia Moreno Penitentiary in Quito, Ecuador. The prisoners find they suddenly have a voice after they take 360 people hostage, and a pattern of abuse and corruption by the guards toward the prisoners becomes clear after lengthy negotiations.
Hay cosas que no se dicen
Editor
Beatriz looks for her former partner Mercedes, but she is already with someone else. Beatriz forces her entry into his house and asks her to come back.
Hay cosas que no se dicen
Sound
Beatriz looks for her former partner Mercedes, but she is already with someone else. Beatriz forces her entry into his house and asks her to come back.
Jaque
Editor
Although their ideological, social and economic differences, Christian and Juan Fernando have been able to maintain a strong friendship since childhood.
Jaque
Music
Although their ideological, social and economic differences, Christian and Juan Fernando have been able to maintain a strong friendship since childhood.
Jaque
Director
Although their ideological, social and economic differences, Christian and Juan Fernando have been able to maintain a strong friendship since childhood.
Alegría de una vez
Writer
The story of the relationship between two upper-class, wild, Ecuadorian teenagers.
Alegría de una vez
Director
The story of the relationship between two upper-class, wild, Ecuadorian teenagers.
Ratas, ratones, rateros
Editor
Ambientada en medio de la miseria de los pobres de Ecuador, "Ratas, Ratones, Rateros" narra la historia de Salvador, un joven ladrón envuelto en una espiral de delincuencia cada vez mayor gracias a su primo Ángel, un ex-convicto.