Alma Herrera Pazmino

Alma⠀

Alma Herrera-Pazmiño is a film editor and creative raised in San Francisco, CA based out of NYC. She recently edited 'All Up In The Biz' for Paramount Plus Her credits as an editor include “Louis Armstrong’s Black and Blues” for Imagine Documentaries and Apple TV. Credit as an assistant editor include: Barbara Kopple’s Emmy nominated documentary Desert One which premiered at TIFF 2019. She has worked as an assistant editor for PBS News hour, Telling Pictures, Frontline Media, Zocalo Media, Multitude Films, Story Syndicate and MegTV. 

Alma has been a fellow in the Sundance art of the Edit Fellowship (2021-2022) and the Karen Schmeer Diversity in the Edit Room Fellowship (2020-2021) where she has worked on her short films along with her mentors. Alma’s pedagogy is rooted in her upbringing in the Mission District of San Francisco, CA where she worked as a housing rights organizer and youth development arts administrator. Her love for story is driven by capturing the rituals that rise at the intersection of grief and joy. Celebrating the resilience of the human experience. 

When she is not editing feature documentaries she is DJing for her community or documenting cultural events such as her short form series called Tacofornia Love. Rhythm and blending flavors are at the center of her working aesthetic.