Sergio Ruiz Velasco de Alba (Guadalajara, Mexico, 1995) is a filmmaker working across fiction and nonfiction, as well as a cinematographer and photographer. His work explores themes of memory, family relationships, community life, and forms of resistance through a contemplative approach to everyday life. He graduated from the Department of Image and Sound at the University of Guadalajara in 2020, where he later taught documentary film as a guest tutor. He furthered his training through courses at ENERC in Buenos Aires and the Mexican Association of Cinematography (AMC), and in 2026 completed the DocNomads International Master’s in Documentary Film Directing, based in Lisbon, Budapest, and Brussels. He has directed more than ten short films, including Hijos del Mar (2020), winner of the Zanate Award for Best Mexican Student Film, and his work has been presented at national and international festivals including FICG, DocsMX Jalisco, FIDBA, and Biograf in Portugal, where his work was selected for the New Narratives section. He has collaborated with filmmakers including Juan Pablo González and Jaime Humberto Hermosillo, serving as cinematographer on Hermosillo’s final film, Crimen por Omisión. In 2025, he was a FONCA fellow through the APCE program, and has also served as a jury member at several editions of the Mirada Corta International Film Festival in Mexico City.

Alongside filmmaking, Ruiz Velasco de Alba maintains a photographic practice focused on documentary and street photography. His interest in analog processes has led him to experiment with both still and moving images, including Super 8 film. He has taken his camera to more than 25 countries, where encounters with unfamiliar places and people inform his creative process. His photographs have been included in collective exhibitions and were published in Err Magazine in 2024. That same year, he co-founded Penumbra Cuarto Oscuro with Leonardo Hernández, an itinerant photography project dedicated to fostering community through workshops, conversations, and encounters around photographic practice, analog processes, and the city.