Maria Sarasvati Herrera is a French-Mexican cinematographer born in
Mexico City who has built a visually stimulating and impressive body
of work.

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Herrera recently lensed the main unit photography for episodes 5
and 6 of the Apple TV+ series Women in Blue (Las Azules), alongside
shooting the second unit on the entire show. She is the sole female
cinematographer for the show that follows four women who joined
Mexico's first female police force in the seventies.

 

Next up, audiences worldwide will see her work on episodes 4, 5 and
6 of Netflix’s highly-anticipated eight-episode series, One Hundred
Years of Solitude. The film is based on Nobel Prize-winning author
Gabriel García Márquez’s best-selling and epic novel, widely
considered as a Latin American literary classic. 

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Her past work in televison includes Netflix's The Most Beautiful Flower (2022) where she lensed all ten episodes of the award-winning comedy series.

 

Herrera’s work has screened at film festivals globally, including the
Guadalajara International Film Festival in 2024, where her film The
Muleteer, received prices for best direction and best
cinematography.

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​In 2020, her second feature film, Summer White, premiered at
Sundance Film Festival and won the Best Film Award at the Málaga
Film Festival.

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Her earlier works have featured at: the Cine Latino Film Festival;
Berlinale Talents Guadalajara (2014); and Berlinale Talents Berlin
(2016). In 2010, her work on El vacío as part of the Student Etudes
Competition was nominated for a Golden Tadpole at the prestigious
Camerimage International Film Festival.​​

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