Missy Hernandez is an award-winning independent filmmaker and screenwriter whose scripts center Latiné experiences in the United States and the 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 is the winner of the 2024 Nantucket Film Festival Tony Cox Screenplay Competition and winner of the 2024 Athena List for best unproduced screenplays about female leadership. Missy was an associate producer for the HBO/A24 series Random Acts of Flyness (2018), a writer and co-producer of American Thief (2020), and a co-writer and producer of The Last Election and Other Love Stories (2021). Missy graduated from Columbia University in New York City with a B.A. in Cinema Studies and an M.F.A. in Screenwriting. She is an Assistant Professor in the School of Film and Television at Columbia College Chicago.  

Missy was a participant in Cine Qua Non Lab’s 2020 Storylines Lab and 2022 Script Revision Lab with I Don’t Dream in Spanish Anymore.

A La Tumba [co-written with Miguel Silveira] — In a Latin American country on the brink of revolution, a desperate farmer must risk everything to save her daughter’s life.