Talent Guide

Bobby Herrera

  • Discipline:Director
  • Program Year:Documentary Story Lab 2025

Bio

Bobby Herrera is a South Texas-born Mexican American narrative and documentary filmmaker based in St. Louis City. His recent feature screenplay is supported by the Sundance Institute, SFFILM and Antigravity Academy. He shot, directed and edited the feature documentary The Gray Seasons, which premiered in festivals in 2011. His no-budget narrative Palacios premiered in festivals in 2017. Both films earned worldwide distribution. In 2024, Herrera was selected as a Berlinale Talent and for participation in the Berlinale Doc Station with his latest documentary feature. He also directs and produces a wide range of commercial and creative content.

Current Project

The Seven Ages of Olajuwon

Logline

Told on stage and through 16+ years of intimate and powerful footage, a gifted Black performer struggles to exist as he stares down a defining journey towards purpose when met with unreal expectations, risks to his livelihood and injustice when the FBI ensnares him in a deadly terrorist plot.