Upcoming Workshops, Screenings, Readings, and More!
Missy’s feature script, I Don’t Dream in Spanish Anymore, is a finalist for the 2025 Nashville Film Festival Screenplay Competition!
Missy’s feature script, I Don’t Dream in Spanish Anymore, is a finalist for the 2025 Nashville Film Festival Screenplay Competition! The festival will host a reading of a scene from the script at an event celebrating the competition finalists.
Bringing a script to life starts with more than just casting. It begins at the table read, where words on the page meet real voices and energy. As part of the festival experience, our Screenwriting Competition finalists can submit a scene from their script to be interpreted by a professional cast. This live read offers writers a powerful glimpse into how their story plays out in real time, revealing new dimensions and sparking creative insights.
Hilton Green Hills3801 Cleghorn Ave, Nashville, TN 37215September 21, 2025, 3:30 - 6:30 PM CDT
IFA Presents Business of Filmmaking: One Day to Make a Movie, Without a Budget
Filmmakers Missy Hernandez and Miguel Silveira will join IFA to host a screening of their no-budget, one-day feature, “The Lost Election and Other Love Stories”.
Stay after the film for an in-depth discussion on how it was made.
FREE for IFA members. $15 for non-members.
MADRINA Screening at the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival in Vermont!
A young woman stirs up bitter resentment in an attempt to reconnect with her estranged family at Christmas. Realizing she may never “go home” again, she forges a kinship with migrants seeking refuge in her city.
MAINSTAGE CHICAGO - FILMMAKER WORKSHOP: One Day to Make a Movie: Indie Filmmaking Without a Budget
For filmmakers of any level, especially those who have ever talked themselves out of making a film because they thought:
It was too hard
Too expensive
Too ambitious for their skill level or…
They didn’t have the time.
For everyone and anyone serious about making something.
This workshop will focus on the practical considerations and necessities for making a film regardless of the limitations you face. It will cover:
Why make a film in one day? (Or weekend.)
What is the “game structure” of filmmaking?
How one location is all you need.
How much money you don’t have and why that can be your biggest asset.