Biography

James Lee Hernandez is a multi-Emmy® and PGA Award nominated filmmaker and Signal Award winning podcaster. Hernandez and his creative partner, Brian Lazarte wrote, directed, and executive produced the Apple TV+ Original Documentary Series, The Big Conn (SXSW 2022). His second Apple TV+ Original Documentary Series, The Jet, is slated to be released soon.

Most notably, Hernandez directed, wrote, and edited the 5-time Emmy® nominated HBO Original Documentary Series, McMillion$ (Sundance 2020), alongside Lazarte. Hernandez executive produced the series with Mark Wahlberg, Stephen Levinson, Archie Gips, and Lazarte.

Hernandez is a self-taught Latinx filmmaker and founding partner of FunMeter, a TV & Film production company specializing in stranger-than-fiction scripted and non-scripted content. James is executive producing the recently announced three-part documentary series, Lolla: The Story of Lollapalooza on Paramount+, and produced the feature documentary The Herricanes, which will premiere at SXSW 2023.
- IMDb mini biography by: Ray Finkle