Sergio Guerra's fondness for suspense and the unsettling formed at an early age, the end result of too many impressionable "Twilight Zone" marathons. A San Francisco native, the Latinx filmmaker started making movies in high school using old family cameras, developing a particular affinity for the eerie graininess of Super 8. He honed his craft while attending New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. His original horror pilot "Creature Comfort" was a winner in the ATX-Blacklist Script Competition, and his horror short "Murder Ballad" had its Los Angeles premiere at Screamfest in 2019.