THE BABY FARMER
15Min
Director - Jaime Herrera Jr.
United States
The mother of a giant larva must stop her psychotic captor from offering her child up to The Baby Farmer.
THE BABY FARMER
15Min
Director - Jaime Herrera Jr.
United States
The mother of a giant larva must stop her psychotic captor from offering her child up to The Baby Farmer.
Director Biography - Jaime Herrera Jr.
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Jaime Herrera Jr. Writer, Director, Editor, and Producer.
Herrera was born in Chicagoland to Colombian and Salvadoran immigrants and grew up in Laredo, Texas. The move from the Midwest to the border was a tough one, and not finding many fulfilling friendships at school, Herrera turned to creating stop motion videos with his toys. In high school he started producing a series of live action shorts through extensive trial and error, with the help of anyone he could convince.
These high school projects culminated in a feature length spaghetti western made in his senior year, for which his cast and crew would help fund by selling chocolates and chips at school. Herrera relocated back to Chicago for college, and has been consistently making films outside of class all throughout his college career. He never saw the point of going to film school if you aren't making films. He has never let the scope of his imagination stop him from taking on ambitious and theatrically demanding pieces. His fascination with history and dreams drive his creative vision, and he is very intent of making all his dreams into realities.
Director Statement
Instead of making a horror film, I wanted to tell a story with horrific elements. The antagonist of this film, Priscilla Rex, is a character I created in high school, and one that I have been developing for years since. Every storyteller has stories that they come back to time and time again. Priscilla Rex to me is like my own Dracula, Freddy Krueger, and a bastardized, evil (and American) Mary Poppins. Her story came to me through my own very real fear of missing persons cases. The idea of someone just vanishing terrifies me, and the notion of how the most unassuming people could be capable of the most unspeakable acts also disturbs me. Thus, Priscilla Rex was born, went missing, and now spreads her delusions and misery like a virus to unlucky Americans in 1940s Chicagoland.