Paula Heredia

Paula Heredia is an award winning director and editor based in New York City working in film and television. A native of El Salvador, Paula has been honored by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences with an Emmy® for her editorial work in the acclaimed HBO documentary In Memoriam, NYC 9/11/01. She has also been the recipient of the prestigious American Cinema Editors-ACE Eddie Award® for the acclaimed documentary Unzipped, and the Hispanic Creative Award for her director's work in Teniendo Un Bebe. She received her second ACE Eddie Award® nomination for the HBO series The Weight of the Nation. For her documentary Africa Rising, Paula received the Best Woman Director Award at the International Documentary Film Festival in Soria and at the Festival of Cine Invisible in Bilbao, Spain. Paula's film directorial work includes the documentaries: George Plimpton and the Paris Review, Ralph Gibson Photographer, The Couple in the Cage, and Slavery and the Law. Her new documentary film Alborada, the story of her mother-- a woman who lived underground in the Salvadoran guerilla for 20 years, and of the people in the small town of Suchitoto, El Salvador who helps her heal war wounds, had its premier at the 2015 Havana International Film Festival. Her most recent film, Toucan Nation broadcasted in Animal Planet in 140 countries around the world. Some of her editorial credits include: Finding Christa, winner of the 1992 Sundance Jury Award for best documentary and a selection for the New Films/New Directors at the Museum of Modern Art; The American Heroes Series created by fashion photographer Arthur Elgort; Colorado Cowboy, winner of the cinematography award at the Sundance Film Festival in 1994; Life After Life, an HBO production; Modulations Cinema for the Ear, a film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival; and I Remember Me, winner at the 2000 Hamptons Film Festival. She is the president of Heredia Pictures in New York and has served as adjunct professor at The New School University and New York University Graduate Film Department. She serves as consultant for HBO Original Programming in New York. She was educated in El Salvador, Costa Rica, Mexico, England, and the United States and continues to be a bridge between those countries.