Haunted by inherited memories, a pregnant scientist must undo an ancestral curse that threatens to kill her and her unborn child.
Winner of the Nantucket Film Festival Tony Cox Screenplay Competition 2024 - Feature Screenplay.
Finalist for the Urbanworld Screenplay Competition 2023.
Participant in the Chicago International Film Festival CIX: Lab 2023.
Winner of the Minnesota Film Festival Pitch Competition 2023
Madrina - Short Film - Post-Production
A young woman stirs up bitter resentment in an attempt to reconnect with her estranged family at Christmas. When JESSICA shows up for family Christmas after being uninvited, she is met with coldness and hostility until she sees the one person who never lost faith in her.
Photo by J. Wakamaya Carey 2017
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.
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.
Family Medicine - Pilot Script
After another devastating hurricane hits the island, an eccentric Puerto Rican farmer on a mission to find the next generation of healers moves in with his know-it-all daughter and young grandson in Chicago in order to teach them to use the powers they've inherited to help save the world.
Photo by J. Wakamaya Carey 2016
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.
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.
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.
Photo by Zach Sullivan
Photo by Hernan Jimenez
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.