IF I GO WILL THEY MISS ME

Cinematography: Michael Fernandez

Cast: Danielle Brooks, J. Alphonse Nicholson

Synopsis: 

Twelve-year-old Lil Ant transforms his working-class neighborhood beneath the LAX flight path into a living mythology, where family members become gods and the sky is crowded with endless departures. As he searches for connection with his god-like yet conflicted father, he finds support in his close-knit community that helps him reconcile myth and reality.

Walter Thompson-Hernández

Walter Thompson-Hernández is a Los Angeles–based writer-director and Sundance Institute lab alum. His Sundance Film Festival award-winning short, If I Go Will They Miss Me, launched his feature adaptation. He directed Netflix’s Untold: Shooting Guards and debuted his first narrative feature, Kites, at the Tribeca Film Festival, earning a special jury prize for its bold storytelling acclaim. 

Festivals:

Sundance Film Festival 2026

San Francisco International Film Festival 2026