Gripping documentary Breaking the News offers Tribeca Film Festival attendees a look into what it takes for journalists to fight for what’s right

Above all, Breaking the News does a magnificent job at capturing the stress that writing stories can cause on a reporter. There is a brief moment depicting The 19th’s staff watching the presidential debate between Trump and Joe Biden, and it is almost triggering having to relive the absurdity of that time. Moments like this give you a sense of the day-to-day life of a writer that audiences can sometimes mistake to be easy.

Although half of the footage is taken from online video meetings, directors Heather Courtney, Chelsea Hernandez and Princess A. Hairston makes the film work so well through their ability to put you in the same room as these journalists.

A New Film From Chelsea Hernandez Focuses On Those Who Build Our Homes And Our Cities

Grant Wood’s 1930s painting, “American Gothic” – the one with the somber-looking farmer holding a pitchfork, and his equally somber-looking wife standing beside him – is considered iconic. 

For Austin-based filmmaker Chelsea Hernandez, today’s version of “American Gothic” would depict married construction workers – a man holding a long, pipe-bending tool, his wife in a hard hat and tool belt, standing in front of a pickup truck. Hernandez sought to bring that image to life in her new film, “Building the American Dream.”

‘Build Solidarity’: These Two Documentaries Capture the Uncertainty & Significance of This Moment

Come fall, the September evening chill will require a new batch of mind-stimulating content to cuddle up to and keep us focused on the main thing. Namely, voting for the future we want and unifying to demand the changes we need. In come the teams behind PBS’ upcoming documentaries Latino Vote: Dispatches from the Battleground and Building the American Dream.

The latter focuses on the abuse of immigrant labor as a whole and in Texas in particular. Beyond that, it highlights the fight back, by way of a workers’ movement in the construction industry. 35-year-old filmmaker Chelsea Hernandez is the producer and director behind the documentary.

Chelsea Hernandez Stages a Project on Student Loan Debt, in the Unlikeliest of Places

On her first artist residency, Hernandez explores the student debt crisis — and builds a culture of communication about it

texas monthly - 10 Filmmakers on the Rise

Here are ten directors—many of them are screenwriters too, and a few are actors as well—who will be making Texas proud for years to come. —Jeff Salamon.

An Austin native who spent the better part of her childhood co-hosting an educational program on public access television, Chelsea Hernandez decamped to New York City for school and quickly scored some valuable industry internships. But when a family health scare brought her back home, Hernandez found herself increasingly drawn to Austin’s filmmaking scene. After spending the past three years as a producer and director at local PBS affiliate KLRU—where she helmed the Emmy-winning documentary series Arts in Context—Hernandez is now shifting into feature-length documentary mode and taking on a slightly bigger task: giving a voice to all Texans.