Mateo Herrera

Editing

Mateo Herrera

Place of birth

Quito, Ecuador

Known for

Editing

Credits

18 titles

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).

Known for

Tinta Sangre poster
NR

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

2013

El Comité poster
NR

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

2006

Jaque poster
10.0

Although their ideological, social and economic differences, Christian and Juan Fernando have been able to maintain a strong friendship since childhood.

Jaque

2005

Chuquiragua poster
NR

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

2016

Impulse poster
NR

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.

Impulse

2009

Resonancia poster
NR

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

2013

Behind the camera

Tinta Sangre poster
NR

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

2013

Tinta Sangre poster
NR

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

2013

El Comité poster
NR

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

2006

El Comité poster
NR

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

2006

Jaque poster
10.0

Although their ideological, social and economic differences, Christian and Juan Fernando have been able to maintain a strong friendship since childhood.

Jaque

2005

Chuquiragua poster
NR

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

2016

Chuquiragua poster
NR

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

2016

Impulse poster
NR

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.

Impulse

2009

Impulse poster
NR

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.

Impulse

2009

Impulse poster
NR

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.

Impulse

2009

Resonancia poster
NR

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

2013

Resonancia poster
NR

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

2013

JunkieLove poster
NR

Elena is a frustrated woman living a monotonous life. She meets Ramiro, a painter who was once famous and acclaimed, but now lives only on memories and attempts to reinvent himself. Elena is seduced by Ramiro's stale rhetoric and enters a dreamlike world where everything changes. Infected by Ramiro's bohemian lifestyle, she surrenders to a spiral of lovers driven by jealousy and possessiveness. Her certainties gradually begin to blur.

JunkieLove

2025

JunkieLove poster
NR

Elena is a frustrated woman living a monotonous life. She meets Ramiro, a painter who was once famous and acclaimed, but now lives only on memories and attempts to reinvent himself. Elena is seduced by Ramiro's stale rhetoric and enters a dreamlike world where everything changes. Infected by Ramiro's bohemian lifestyle, she surrenders to a spiral of lovers driven by jealousy and possessiveness. Her certainties gradually begin to blur.

JunkieLove

2025

El Panóptico Ciego poster
4.0

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

2015

El Panóptico Ciego poster
4.0

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

2015

Alegría de una vez poster
8.0

The story of the relationship between two upper-class, wild, Ecuadorian teenagers.

Alegría de una vez

2002

Alegría de una vez poster
8.0

The story of the relationship between two upper-class, wild, Ecuadorian teenagers.

Alegría de una vez

2002