Nicolás Echevarría (born 8 August 1947) is a Mexican film director and cinematographer.

[1] Echevarría draws on his Mexican heritage in early films.

He discusses his observations of Mexican spirituality in an interview with Betsy Sussler: “I have worked with about ten groups of Indians in Mexico, and the things that I have come across most often—related to all of them is this: there are two worlds, one belongs to everyday life—to man, we get up, we take a shower, we think about what we eat for breakfast, what we’ll do for the day .

Now there is another world, it could be called the Sacred Space.” He lived with the Huichol people for two years and made three films with them.

Echevarría features a Mexican Shaman woman in his 1978 documentary María Sabina, mujer espíritu.