Her Favorite Patient nominated for Best Comedy Short and Best Ensemble - Narrative Short

We’re excited to announce that Her Favorite Patient is nominated for Best Comedy Short and Best Ensemble - Narrative Short at the 11th annual Queens World Film Festival! Congrats to our cast Barbara Miluski, Isabelle Pierre, Clay Russell, our writer/producer Brady Evan Walker, and our entire crew! I’m honored to share this recognition with our cast and crew and grateful that Queens World Film Festival has selected our film to screen live at their festival this year.

Thanks to everyone that came out to our live screening in Long Island City on Saturday. It’s nice to have the collective experience of sharing our work in person on the big screen once again, and it feels like we’re starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Her Favorite Patient, a film by Reuben Hernandez, is nominated for Best Comedy Short and Best Ensemble - Narrative Short at the 11th annual Queens World Film Festival

Her Favorite Patient, a film by Reuben Hernandez, is nominated for Best Comedy Short

Her Favorite Patient, a film by Reuben Hernandez, is nominated for Best Ensemble - Narrative Short

Her Favorite Patient screening at Queens World Film Festival

Her Favorite Patient is screening both live and virtually at the 11th annual Queens World Film Festival, one of MovieMaker’s 50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee. The live screening will be at The Local in Long Island City, NYC on Saturday, June 26th at 7 pm and tickets can be purchased here. The virtual screening will be part of the Therapy This short film block from 6/23 to 7/3 and tickets can be purchased here. We’re excited to screen at QWFF and thank you for your support!

Her Favorite Patient, a film by Reuben Hernandez and written by Brady Evan Walker, screens at Queens World Film Festival

Queens World Film Festival is one of MovieMaker’s 50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee in 2021

Settling Up screening at Malarkey Film Festival

My short film, Settling Up, will screen at the Malarkey Film Festival in the Malarkey X Blackmagic: Introductory Micro Shorts competition on June 17th at 6 pm EST. This is a FREE virtual event, with a $10 Suggested Donation. All donations for this event go directly to Public Assistants and you can RSVP here.

Settling Up, a film by Reuben Hernandez and written by Brady Evan Walker

Malarkey Film Festival

Malarkey Film Festival Malarkey X Blackmagic: Introductory Micro Shorts

Settling Up film director Reuben Hernandez

Filmshop Exhibition

My short film Maddie screens as part of Filmshop Exhibition, curated by Michael Dunaway, available to watch for free through tonight here: https://www.thefilmshop.org/fs-exhibition-viewer-thursday.

Michael Dunaway
“A struggling Latina bartender, a millennial hipster white woman, a group of inner-city fencers, a little girl on the streets of New York City, a Black visual artist, and a boy growing up playing chess with his grandfather. The protagonists of these six films couldn't be more different, and yet the emerging filmmakers will make you fall in love with every one of them. These six directors also share a meticulous attention to production design, and have each found the ideal pace at which to unfold their stories. But it's those characters that stick with me most. Well done.”

Petty Cash, Matt Simon
Zugzwang, Lars Fuchs
Maddie, Reuben Hernandez
Inner City Fencers, Daniel Feighery
Division Street: Fish Out of Water, Traven Rice
Masterpiece, Eden Martinez

Michael Dunaway is the Editor at Large of Paste Magazine, and the founding partner of Gasoline Films and Poitier & Dunaway Motion Pictures. He is the director, writer, and producer of Six LA Love Stories, and the producer and director of 21 Years: Richard Linklater. He also produced and directed The Man Who Ate New Orleans, with Oscar nominee Morgan Spurlock. His short film Bread won Best US Narrative Short at the 2011 Rome International Film Festival. Current projects include a scripted historical civil rights epic with the King and Poitier families. He lives in Atlanta with his wife and children.

Interview in We Are Moving Stories

I was interviewed and featured along with writer Brady Evan Walker in We Are Moving Stories for our short film, Her Favorite Patient, starring Barbara Miluski (Girls, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel). Check out the full interview here.

New York State Certified Minority-Owned Business Enterprise

Reuben Hernandez Studios is now a New York State certified Minority-owned Business Enterprise (MBE), as well as a NYC and Port Authority of New York and New Jersey certified MBE. We are looking forward to doing business with New York State.

FREE Settling Up screening tonight

Come out to a FREE screening of our short film Settling Up tonight at 7 pm at Stone Creek Bar NYC! Our last screening sold out and tonight we will screen alongside some other fellow Filmshop member short films. It will be a fun night of films, food, and beer. More details here.

Settling Up a film by Reuben Hernandez, written by Brady Evan Walker

Sold Out Settling Up screening

Our Settling Up film screening sold out at the 10th annual Williamsburg Independent Film Festival! We had a blast having our film open the festival to a sold out crowd. Thanks Willfilm for screening our film and we look forward to coming back again.

Settling Up Screens at the Williamsburg Independent Film Festival

Excited to screen Settling Up as the opening film at the 10th annual Williamsburg Film Festival at the Wythe Cinema (80 Wythe Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11249) on Thursday 11/21 at 7 pm. This is one of my favorite film festivals and where it all began for Settling Up. Tickets: https://bpt.me/4429873 and full schedule.

We hope to see you there!

Directed by Reuben Hernandez
Written by Brady Evan Walker
Starring Jonathan Randell Silver, Jessica Frey, and Kristen Adele
Produced by Reuben Hernandez, Maryann Alspaugh, and Brady Evan Walker
Sound Mixer and Sound Design by Ash Knowlton / Silver Sound
Edited and colored by Patrice D. Bowman
Made in collaboration with the Filmshop collective

Director's Reel

Reuben Hernandez | 2019 Director’s Reel

I’m excited to share my new director’s reel featuring some of my film work over the last five years. A huge shoutout to my cast, crews, supporters, and collaborators that have helped bring these projects to life. Thanks for watching.

Filmed on location in NYC, Antarctica, Arctic Norway, Chile, and Yellowknife

Filmshop Presents Famous Last Words

Leuca is helping our sound designer Ash with the final sound mix for our latest narrative short film. I’m excited to share another film tomorrow night at the Filmshop 10 year anniversary short film showcase at Rough Trade NYC. We hope to see you there!

Filmshop, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, is a non-profit film organization committed to developing new work through peer support and collaboration. Filmshop supports a community of about 250 filmmakers in NYC, New Orleans, and LA. Members meet weekly to workshop projects, offer constructive feedback, and incubate new ideas. Our fall season begins just after Labor Day. We are now accepting applications for the Fall 2019 season at www.thefilmshop.org/apply, and we will be holding an open house in July where you can learn more about our organization and meet current members.

Lighthouse International Film Festival

Lighthouse International Film Festival was an incredible experience and is hands down one of my favorite film festivals. I had the opportunity to meet and learn from Guy Nattiv, Oscar winning director of Skin, and numerous other talented filmmakers and industry people. Some friends and fellow Filmshop members screened at LIFF and it was fun seeing so many familiar faces. My family also enjoyed attending the festival and my 8 month old daughter ate lobster for the first time, thanks to Charlotte and the rest of the crew at the hospitality house. I highly recommend the festival and will definitely be coming back. Thanks to the entire team at Lighthouse Intl FF for such a memorable and wonderful experience!

Q&A with Guy Nattiv, writer/director of the opening feature film, Skin, and some cast members

I met Guy Nattiv and attended his filmmaking masterclass. Guy won the Oscar this year for best live action short film for his short, Skin.

My 8 month old daughter Leuca enjoying the view and lobster at the filmmaker hospitality house

Q&A following the screening of my short film, Settling Up. Photo by Clayton Dean Smith

Lisa and I in front of the Long Beach Island Historical Museum

Congrats to all of my fellow Filmshop members that screened at LIFF!

Settling Up Film Premiere Sunday June 9th

My narrative short film Settling Up will premiere Sunday, June 9th, at 1:30 pm at Long Beach Island Historical Museum (129 Engleside Avenue, Beach Haven, NJ 08008, USA) in competition at Lighthouse International Film Festival, one of MovieMaker’s “Coolest 25 Film Festivals in the World”. Settling Up will also screen alongside Filmshop short films If the Shoe Fits by Cinder Chou and Self(Ish) by Dani Tennenbaum. Oscar winner Guy Nattiv will open the festival with his narrative feature film, Skin, and Sundance documentary American Factory will close the festival.

Check out the full program here and schedule here. We are so excited to screen at LIFF and hope to see you there!