Ericka Lavín is a Mexican writer and director based in Los Angeles. Her work moves within dark comedy and the absurd, exploring fate and those quiet spaces where humor and despair coexist. She is drawn to characters trapped within systems, beliefs, and expectations, and to small, often ironic moments that reveal their humanity.

After more than fifteen years working closely with filmmakers and crews across the United States, Mexico, and South America, Ericka developed her own storytelling language, with particular attention to performance, rhythm, and visual detail. Alongside her narrative work, she has directed in advertising, where she refined her sense of timing and visual clarity.

Her first short film, Matando Moscas, is a dark comedy about an office worker who hires a hitman to end his life under specific conditions, only for fate to intervene in unexpected ways. The film is a recipient of the Shore Scripts Short Film Fund and is currently in post-production, with plans to premiere on the 2027 festival circuit.

Ericka is interested in stories that resist easy answers, embrace contradiction, and find humor in life’s most uncomfortable corners. She works in both Spanish and English and continues to develop narrative projects that reflect her cultural background and her belief that comedy can be a powerful tool to explore and question established norms, fear, desire, and the need for control.