Natalia Hernández Moreno

Natalia Hernández Moreno is a PhD student in the Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies at NYU Tisch, where she also earned her MA. Her research frames distribution as spectral adaptation of Latin American cinema in New York City. Alongside her academic work, Natalia is the Associate Director and Publicist at Cinema Tropical, the leading presenter of Latin American cinema in the United States. She holds a summa cum laude BA in Literature from Universidad de los Andes (Colombia) and is an alumna of the New York Film Academy’s screenwriting and production programs. Her industry background includes work as a script researcher for independent productions in Bogotá and development at Paramount.

Natalia’s research posits film distribution as an active process of spectral adaptation, examining how Latin American cinema is textually transformed through its promotional and curatorial infrastructure. Threading media infrastructure through cinema hauntology, she traces how promotional paratexts—press kits, grassroots outreach, and curatorial tastemaking—rewrite the film itself as it enters New York City's screening spaces, turning ephemeral traces into phantom releases.