Sergio Morkin is an Argentinean documentary filmmaker living in Mexico. He studied cinematography in Buenos Aires and graduated in 1992, and was drawn to film and drama direction. His critically acclaimed documentary film Oscar (2004) has received numerous international awards, including best direction, best writing and best cinematography. Since then, Morkin has worked for several production companies and directed different documentary films for TV. He also designs and teaches documentary filmmaking workshops throughout Mexico. In 2012 he shot and directed The Ginger Ninjas Ride Mexico, a feature documentary film that audiences have responded enthusiastically to at film festivals. Morkin is a founding partner of Lupe & Hijos Films and produced The Charro of Toluquilla, a documentary film by director José Villalobos Romero.

His most recent documentary Maricarmen will be premiered in 2019. His projects have obtained support from several institutions like Fondo Nacional de las Artes, (Argentina), Altercine (Canada), Aeci (Spain), Docsforum (Mexico), ITDP (Mexico), IMCINE (Mexico), Tribeca Film Institute (USA) Gabriel Figueroa Fund (Mexico) Fundación Cinépolis (Mexico), among others.

He studied audiovisual media at the Audiovisual Media Center. He works as a director, photographer and documentary editor, as well as an animator and software programmer and multimedia installations. His first documentary short film Oxxo, business or monopoly (2004) was presented at the Hamburg Ambulart festival in Germany in 2005, Videobrasil 2007 in Sao Paulo and at the 2007 Festival of Flowers in Madrid. He has worked as an editor of documentary feature films including The Ginger Ninjas, Ride Mexico, Faceless, Don Mammie Blue, as well as other documentary short films and commercial videos.

In 2016, he premiered his debut documentary El Charro de Toluquilla, a very successful work that won prizes at national and international festivals for best documentary film, such as FICG, FICMY, Sheffield Doc Fest, GIFF, GFCM, José Rovirosa Price.