Writer/Director Walter Thompson Hernandez for his first feature: IF I GO WILL THEY MISS ME
Walter Thompson Hernandez’s Bio:
Walter began his career as a multimedia journalist for the New York Times for four years from 2018-2022. He covered global subculture stories in print, video, and photography. He’s the author of the book Compton Cowboys, based on a New York Times feature he wrote about them, that was nominated for a NAACP IMAGE award in 2021. The Compton Cowboys book has been optioned for film by Searchlight Pictures. In 2022, Walter wrote and directed the short film IF I GO WILL THEY MISS ME which was awarded the Sundance Festival U.S. Fiction Short Film Category. He recently developed the feature-length adaptation with the support of the Sundance Screenwriters and Directors Labs. Walter was honored as one of 25 new faces of film by Filmmaker Magazine In 2022, A year later, he was acknowledged as one of the 2023 five storytellers to watch by Variety Magazine. Most recently, Walter directed a NETFLIX UNTOLD sports doc feature film about the Gilbert Arenas and Javaris Crittenton gun locker room story that will air in April 2025.
Logline:
Twelve-year-old Lil Ant is desperately trying to connect with his emotionally inaccessible father when he’s greeted by eerie, almost spectral, boys who keep their arms spread out like airplane wings. These boys, who watch over the kids in South Central Los Angeles, reveal a connection between father, son, and neighborhood and the future of their relationship together.
