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Missy’s Biography
Missy Hernandez is an award-winning independent filmmaker and screenwriter whose scripts center Latiné experiences in the US and Caribbean. Her work is intersectional, feminist, often political, and unapologetically fantastical as fits the genre or her whims. Missy’s original television pilot script, Family Medicine, was a finalist for the 2020 Script Pipeline TV Script Competition. Her feature script, I Don’t Dream in Spanish Anymore, is the winner of the 2024 Nantucket Film Festival’s Tony Cox Screenplay Competition and winner of the 2024 Athena List. Her short film script, Lejos de Aquí, was a finalist for the 2025 Shore Scripts Short Film Fund and the 2025 Outstanding Screenplay Shorts Competitions. Missy’s short film, Madrina (2025), is currently on the festival circuit. Missy was a Writer and Co-Producer of American Thief (2020), the co-writer and producer of The Last Election and Other Love Stories (2021), and the Writer’s Assistant and Associate Producer for season one of the HBO/A24 series Random Acts of Flyness (2018). 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. Her previous projects have received support from the Illinois Arts Council, Cine Qua Non Labs, NALIP Media Market, the Chicago International Film Festival’s CIX: Lab, the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, the Jerome Foundation, Stowe Story Labs, and IFP/The Gotham.