In 2016, she won the Artistic Innovation Award from Women in Film and Television Vancouver. Her next short, Madre de Dios, starring Tristan Risk, received praise for its design and screened at the 2015 Fantasia International Film Festival. El Gigante featured at Melbourne's 2015 Monster Fest and Sydney's 2015 A Night of Horror International Film Festival, and won the Jury Award at the 2016 Macabre Faire Film Festival. Her music video, Paloma, was the opening video for 2015 Morbido Fest. Two of her shorts, Slam and Testament, created as entries in film competitions Dead on Film and Phrike Film Fest respectively, picked up awards for Best Death ( Testament) and Best Picture ( Slam). contacted Guerrero upon viewing El Gigante, which led to Luchagore pitching several ideas, one of which became La Quinceañera. The success of El Gigante led to it being adapted into a graphic comic in English and Japanese.Ī development executive at Warner Bros. Later that year, Guerrero directed the adaptation of McKenzie's work, El Gigante, and distributed it in partnership with Raven Banner Entertainment. After viewing Dia de los Muertos, author Shane McKenzie approached Luchagore with adapting his novel, Muerte Con Carne. Her segment Dia de los Muertos premiered at the 2014 Etheria Film Night. It was the first short production made under Luchagore Productions, and Guerrero's final film school project. In 2014, she participated in the anthology series México Bárbaro. She co-founded the production company Luchagore Productions along with Bramley, Cheng and Producer Raynor Shima in 2013. Guerrero stated she loved the overall experience of film school because it taught her how to be a professional. In 2011, they collaborated on her directorial debut, the short film Dead Crossing, about zombie border guards eating Mexicans crossing into the United States. Guerrero and Bramley were in the same class and bonded over a shared love of horror while Cheng was in the year below them. Guerrero met two of her early collaborators, Cinematographer Luke Bramley and Producer Gordon Cheng, while studying film at Capilano University in 2009. As a child, she stole a VHS of Child's Play from Blockbuster but was too scared to finish watching it.Ĭareer 2011–2018: Career beginnings in Motion Picture Production from Capilano University. She grew up in White Rock, British Columbia and graduated with Honors with a B.A. She immigrated to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada at the age of 13. Guerrero was born on Februin Mexico City, Mexico.
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