About Us

DF-NY Productions is an independent video production company co-founded by Kelly and Daniel Hernandez-Alonzo. Combining their creative perspectives and complementary skills, they bring stories to life through thoughtful, compelling visual storytelling.

A New Yorker born and raised in Mexico City, Daniel Hernandez-Alonzo is a Director of Photography and Producer working in documentary, news, commercials, and academia. He was the Director of Photography for China: Frame by Frame, which aired nationally on PBS in 2023, Co-Producer for Your Serve or Mine, which aired on over 200 PBS stations in 2025, and Field Producer/Director of Photography for America’s Main Street: I-80, which will be released on PBS in late 2026. While studying at Columbia in 2024, he won a Pulitzer Fellowship to support his documentary Monkey Kingdom, a film about the non-human primate trade. He is currently a professor at Eugene Lang College at The New School and the Director of Photography for New York University School of Law.

Kelly Hernandez-Alonzo is a non-fiction video editor, producer, and sound recordist. Her most recent work includes China: Frame by Frame (2023), Your Serve or Mine (2025), and America’s Main Street: I-80 (2026) for PBS, and Monkey Kingdom, a documentary about the non-human primate trade between Mauritius and the United States. She was the Website & Digital Content Coordinator at Women Make Movies, where she worked for over ten years, and is currently a Media Production Specialist at New York University School of Law. She runs DF-NY Productions with her partner, Daniel.