Roberto Hernandez at TEDxBerkeley

Roberto Hernandez at TEDxBerkeley 2014: "Rethink. Redefine. Recreate."

Roberto Hernandez is a student of Public Policy and an ABD PhD Candidate in Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. He was trained as a lawyer in Mexico City and in Montreal. Together with Layda Negrete (also a Cal student) he directed and
produced a documentary film that was nominated to three Emmy awards and won an Emmy for Outstanding Investigative Journalism. The film, entitled "Presunto Culpable¨, was shot in a Mexico City prison over a period of two and a half years. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film festival in 2010 and won the audience award at the Los Angeles Film Festival. It was broadcast by PBS-POV series in 2010. The film holds the Box Office record for the documentary genre in Mexico, and was a catalyst for major reforms to the criminal justice system there.

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