SERGE GARCIA 

FILMMAKER

b. 1985, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Serge Garcia (b. 1985, Los Angeles, CA) 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—a practice deepened by his parallel 
work as a musician, where sound is used as narrative architecture. His approach yields works 
of stark intimacy, where constraints become aesthetic virtues. Garcia sustains his practice 
through 15 years of freelance work in production roles across features, commercials, and 
series—a tenure that informs his resourceful 
approach to storytelling.


In 2024, his short documentary El Neceser Rojo won Best Short Documentary at the Guanajuato 
International Film Festival, qualifying it for the 2025 Academy Awards. His films screen 
globally at venues like the International Film Festival Rotterdam, FID Marseille, Museo Reina 
Sofía, Doclisboa, Outfest-Fusion Film Festival, De appel (Amsterdam), Volksbühne (Berlin). 
His short Grand Central Hotel is part of the permanent collection of Le Fonds Régionaux D’art 
Contemporain (FRAC) in Marseille. Garcia was also awarded the 2024 Joaquim Jordá Residency at 
the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid, and has been shortlisted for the Creative Capital award twice 
(2022, 2025).

SELECTED SCREENINGS AND EXHIBITS:

El Neceser Rojo / Narrative short, 15 min, 2024

            Guanajuato International Film Festival, 2024 (WINNER: Best Mexican Short Documentary film)

            Doclisboa, Lisbon, 2024

            Black Canvas/Transmutacion Festival de Cine Contemporaneo CDMX, 2024

A General Disappointment / Narrative short, 25 min, 2022 

Antenna / Doc Short, 9 min, 2022

Grand Central Hotel / Short Doc, 23 min, 2021

Cyle One  / Narrative Short, 10 min, 2021

Noncompliant / Short Doc, 13 min, 2021

Jackie House / Short Doc, 7 min, 2018 
           Die Dresdner Schalfilmtage, 2023

PERSONAL INFO:

Serge Garcia is a writer, filmmaker, audio producer, and photographer of Mexican and Guatemalan 
descent. In 2024 he was awarded the Joaquim Jordá residency in Madrid by the Museo Reina Sofia, 
FID Marseille, and DocLisboa. Founded in 2017, Trouble Pictures is the studio and home for his
hand-crafted productions. It is an evolving experiment with a focus on fiction and
documentary filmmaking.

EDUCATION:
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


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