SERGE GARCIA
FILMMAKER
b. 1985, Los Angeles, CA, USA Serge Garcia is an award-winning independent filmmaker of Mexican-Guatemalan descent. His contemplative work explores narratives of agency and possibility. Through Trouble Pictures, his artistic banner for self-financed micro-budget works, he crafts films that blur fiction and documentary. In 2024 he was awarded the Joaquim Jordá residency in Madrid by the Museo Reina Sofia.
SELECTED SCREENINGS AND EXHIBITS:
El Neceser Rojo / Narrative short, 15 min, 2024
Qualified for the 97th Academy Awards for Best Documentary ShortInternational Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), 2024
Doxa Documentary Film Festival, Vacouver, 2024
Guanajuato International Film Festival, 2024 (WINNER: Best Mexican Short Documentary film)
Guanajuato International Film Festival, 2024 (WINNER: Best Mexican Short Documentary film)
Guanajuato International Film Festival, 2024 (WINNER: Best Mexican Short Documentary film)
Doclisboa, Lisbon, 2024
Black Canvas/Transmutacion Festival de Cine Contemporaneo CDMX, 2024
Black Canvas/Transmutacion Festival de Cine Contemporaneo CDMX, 2024
Black Canvas/Transmutacion Festival de Cine Contemporaneo CDMX, 2024
A General Disappointment / Narrative short, 25 min, 2022
Rencontres Internationales, Paris, 2023Official Selection FID Marseille Flash Competition, 2022
Official Selection BIEFF, 2022
FIDMarseille präsentiert REPERTOIRE #2: Serge Garcia, @ Volksbühne, Berlin 2025
Antenna / Doc Short, 9 min, 2022
FID Marseille, Other Gems, 2022Grand Central Hotel / Short Doc, 23 min, 2021
Official Selection FID Marseille Flash Competition, 2021Official Selection Visionär Film Festival Berlin, 2021
I GOT UP Group Exhibition GB Agency Paris, 2021
Actoral International Festival of Contemporary Arts, Marseille 2021
YPAM (Yokohama International Performing Arts Meeting)Japan, 2021
Hošek Contemporary, Berlin 2022
Whole Music Festival, Ferropolis, 2022
On The Poverty Of Lived Experience, de Appel Amsterdam, 2022
Meseo Reina Sofia, 2024
FIDMarseille präsentiert REPERTOIRE #2: Serge Garcia, @ Volksbühne, Berlin 2025
Cyle One / Narrative Short, 10 min, 2021
Official Selection FID Marseille Flash Competition, 2021Official Selection CUFF, 2021
Cinema Queer International Film Festival Stockholm, 2022
Outfest Fusion Film Festival, Los Angeles, 2022
Official Selection New Fest NYC, 2022
On The Poverty Of Lived Experience, de Appel Amsterdam, 2022
Noncompliant / Short Doc, 13 min, 2021
Die Dresdner Schalfilmtage, 2023Hošek Contemporary, Berlin 2022
Whole Music Festival, Ferropolis, 2022
Jackie House / Short Doc, 7 min, 2018
Die Dresdner Schalfilmtage, 2023
Reina Sofia, 2024EDUCATION:
Political Science, San Francisco City College, 2005 - 2006 Political Science, San Francisco State University, 2006 - 2007 School of Cinema, San Francisco State University, 2009 - 201📎️ WORK EXPERIENCE