Trisha
Ziff
Trisha is the founding director of 212BERLIN she is a documentary filmmaker and curator of photography and has worked in the visual arts for over forty years; running community arts workshops in both photography and film at CAMERAWORK in the East End of London and CAMERAWORK DERRY in the North of Ireland, before moving to Los Angeles and later to Mexico City.
Trisha works independently as a curator, book editor, working with international publishers and in more recent years making documentary films. Trisha is a Guggenheim scholar and recipient of many awards in the USA, England and in Mexico. She has curated at the ICP New York, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Museo de Fotografía Cuatro Caminos, Centro de la Imagen, MUAC, and other museums in Mexico City. The V&A London, Kilmainham Gaol Dublin, and many other international museums.
Her filmography includes:
Her opera prima was Chevolution (2008) for Netflix and Red Envelope. She produced and directed, The Mexican Suitcase (2011) a Mexican/Spanish coproduction; directed, The Man
Who Saw Too Much (2015) which won her first Ariel, for best documentary and numerous other awards. She completed, Pirate Stories, in 2014 filmed in London, Palestine, Dubai and Mexico City a series of shorts on film piracy and Witkin & Witkin, (2017) a study on the identical twins, photographer Joel-Peter Witkin and his brother painter, Jerome Witkin.
She received NEH development funds for Oaxacalifornia: The Return (2021), revisiting a film she made 25 years ago about Mexican identity in the United States, nominated as
best documentary film and best original music at the Ariel awards 2022. In 2019 she received California Humanities support for the film and Sundance Documentary Fund, to her as a filmmaker.
Trisha teaches film and media studies and guest lecturing at various universities in the U.S. Mexico and Europe. Trisha lives in Mexico City and has one son, Julio.
She recently completed her most recent film, Frida: The Girl Just Doesn’t Go Away! Which will have its world premiere in Mexico in october 2026.
She is currently developing a film looking at the work of Mexican photographer Pedro Meyer, and producing Maya Scherr’s opera prima: Prenumbra de Memoria currently in production.
She is working on a personal project exploring the cultural world of cakes, PASTEL through popular photography.
Trisha Ziff, guest lectures at universities and colleges in Mexico, Europe and the U.S in film, curatorial studies, and media studies and photography.
Independent Associates
Juan Carlos
Valdez
From 2019-2026 Juan Carlos contributed to 212 Berlin Films as office manager and assistant to director Trisha Ziff. He is currently co-producer of the feature documentary Frida: The Girl Just Doesn’t Go Away and developing independently his own projects, The Women’s Arena (in post-production), as well as co-director and editor of the short film, The Gift of Darkness.
Jorge
Márquez
(Mexico, 1987) graduated with a degree in Film Directing from the Fundación Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a member of the Mexican Association of Editors (AMEE). Some of the titles he has worked on as a film editor are: The Demonatrix, Jenni, El Vestido de la Novia, and The Load (for which he received a Silver Goddess nomination from the Association of Mexican Cinema Journalists). In collaboration with 212 Berlin he has edited the following documentaries: Frida: The Girl Just Doesn’t Go Away, Gerry Adams: A Ballymurphy Man (nominated for Best Editing at the 68th edition of the Ariel Awards by the AMACC), Oaxacalifornia: The Return, Witkin & Witkin, and A Tale of Two Kitchens.
His television credits include La Hora Marcada, Mi Lista de Exes, El Recluso, and Control Z. Additionally, he worked as a road manager for several Netflix stand-up comedy specials across Chile, Colombia, Argentina, and Mexico.
In the music industry, he has edited music videos for artists like Julieta Venegas, Natalia Lafourcade, and Aleks Syntek. His work also includes managing social media and creating audiovisual content for Julieta Venegas’s “Algo Sucede Tour,” including the official music video for Tu Calor.
He participated in the director’s program at the 28th edition of the Talent Campus at the Guadalajara International Film Festival (FICG), and his short films have been featured in festivals such as the Morelia International Film Festival (FICM) and the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema (BAFICI).
Éramos
Tantos
ÉRAMOS TANTOS is a graphic and audiovisual production studio based in Mexico City with a 30-year track record. Led by brothers Manuel and Christian Cañibe, the studio has worked mostly on films and cultural projects. Their work spans a wide range of disciplines, including poster, book, and magazine design, illustration, animation, and exhibition design, as well as filmmaking. Outstanding recent projects include the creation of motion graphics for the Netflix series Juan Gabriel: Debo, quiero y puedo— directed by María José Cuevas— and the production and direction of feature film Tan cerca de las nubes, which was nominated for an International Emmy Award for Best Sports Documentary in 2024. The studio has collaborated with Trisha Ziff on the graphic design for all her feature films since 2010, starting with The Mexican Suitcase and continuing to the present with Frida: The Girl Just Doesn’t Go Away.