Biography
Missy Hernandez is an award-winning independent filmmaker and screenwriter whose scripts center Latinx experiences in the US and Caribbean. Her work is intersectional, feminist, often political, and unapologetically fantastical as serves the genre or her whims. Her feature script, I Don't Dream In Spanish Anymore, was the winner of the 2024 Nantucket Film Festival's Tony Cox Screenplay Competition and winner of the 2024 Athena Film Festival Athena List for best unproduced screenplays about female leadership. Her projects have received support from Cine Qua Non Labs, the Chicago Independent Producers Lab, the Jerome Foundation, IFP/The Gotham, the Illinois Arts Council, and the National Association of Latino Independent Producers [NALIP] Media Market.
Missy was a Writer and Co-Producer of AMERICAN THIEF (2020 - Film Movement), and an Associate Producer for the first season of the HBO/A24 series RANDOM ACTS OF FLYNESS (2018). Hernandez co-wrote and produced THE LAST ELECTION AND OTHER LOVE STORIES (2021), a documentary shot entirely on Election Day 2020. Missy graduated from Columbia University in New York with a BA in Cinema Studies and an MFA in Screenwriting. She is an Assistant Professor in the School of Film and Television at Columbia College Chicago.
Instructional Areas
Television Writing, Screenwriting, Creative Producing
Creative Practice and Research Interests
Alternative Narrative Formats, Hybrid Documentary/Fiction Storytelling, Latinx and Caribbean Culture
Degrees
B.A., Film & Meda Columbia University 2008
M.F.A., Film Columbia University 2017