Mercado, Érika

She studied communication at the University of the Americas in Puebla (UDLAP) and received a master’s degree in audiovisual production from the National Audiovisual Institute INA SUP, Bry-sur-Marne, France. She received, among other scholarships, the Young Creators Grant in the video category in 2006 and the Foreign Studies Grant 2008-2010, both from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA), Mexico. As co-director with Alejandro Jiménez Ramos and Mario Trueba, she won the Best Short Documentary for Bendita muerte (2003) at the 2nd Morelia International Film Festival (FICM), in addition to the Best Documentary Award at the 1st Festival Aquí y en Corto, Puebla, and the Audience Award at the 4th Festival of Latin American Documentary and Photography in Spain. She won the Short Film Production and Post-production Grant from the National Council for Culture and the Arts (CONACULTA) and the Puebla State Council for Culture and the Arts (CECAP) for her short documentary La visión de Casimira (2014). She is the producer of the feature film La danza del hipocampo (2014) by Gabriela D. Ruvacalba, selected for the 29th Guadalajara International Film Festival (FICG).