The Last Election & Other Love Stories - Feature Documentary - Completed

From sunrise November 3, 2020, to sunrise November 4, 2020, amateur podcasters Khadim Diop and Xisko Monroe interview strangers on the streets of Times Square in anticipation of the 2020 Presidential Election.

• Official Selection: Ashland Independent Film Festival 2022, Warsaw International Film Festival 2021, Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival 2021, Durban International Film Festival 2021, Maine International Film Festival 2021, Urbanworld 2021.

I Don’t Dream In Spanish Anymore (Feature Narrative) - In Development

A mother-to-be must uncover the secrets of her family history and embrace her clairvoyant abilities to undo an ancestral curse before it claims her life.

• Ranked in the Top 3% of Coverfly Scripts.

• Selected for the NALIP Latino Media Market 2022.

• Selected for the Chicago Independent Producers Lab 2022.

• Selected for the Cine Qua Non Storylines Lab 2020.

• Selected for the Columbia University Blue List 2019.

American Thief - Completed Feature

A secret plot to derail the 2016 presidential election connects a teen hacker seeking revenge, a rogue conspiracy vlogger searching for truth, and a mysterious artificial intelligence programmer who knows too much.

Writer/Director Miguel Silveira, Written/Producer by Michel Stolnicki, and Writer/Co-Producer Missy Hernandez. 

• Official Selection: Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival 2022, Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival 2021 (Brazil), Matera International Film Festival 2021 (Italy), North East International Film Festival 2021 (UK), New York Latino Film Festival 2021, Whistler Film Festival 2020 (Canada), Portland International Film Festival 2021, Indie Memphis 2020, Urbanworld Film Festival 2020, Woodstock Film Festival 2020, Oldenburg Film Festival 2020 (Germany), Maine International Film Festival 2020.

• Winner of Best Action Film - North East International Film Festival 2021.

• Grantee of the Jerome Foundation NYC Film and Video Grant 2016. Selected for the 2017 IFP Narrative Completion Lab. 

A La Tumba - In Development

In a Latin American country on the brink of revolution, a desperate farmer must risk everything to save her daughter’s life. .  A La Tumba is a feminist Caribbean western about revenge and redemption.

I Don’t Dream In Spanish Anymore (Short Documentary) - In Production

I DON’T DREAM IN SPANISH ANYMORE is a documentary film that investigates the identity and loss of language over generations of Puerto Rican-Americans living in the Chicagoland area.

• Awarded an Individual Artist Grant from the City of Chicago DCASE.

Leonard Peres - Short Film

Leonard Peres is a Cuban-American professor teaching a class on Latin American history at a university. In the middle of his lecture on the Cuban Revolution, he suffers a stroke. While his physical self remains in the classroom surrounded his students, his spirit goes elsewhere. Straddling this strange place between life and death, as he  searches for the one thing that calls him home.

Directed and Edited by Missy Hernandez. Written and Produced by Suzanne Correa Andrews. Leonard Peres screened at CineFestival 2015, Cine Las Americas 2015, and the International Puerto Rican Heritage Film Festival 2014.

Still - Short Film

Still is a short film about a young couple struggles to reconnect after the loss of their baby. Written, Directed, and Edited by Missy Hernandez in her first year of graduate film school, Still screened as part of the 2015 California Women's Film Festival and inspired Missy's feature script I Don’t Dream In Spanish Anymore.