Julián Hernández is a Mexican film director, specialized in script and direction at the University Center for Cinematographic Studies. He has been twice awarded the Teddy Award at the Berlin International Film Festival (2003).

He has made several fiction short films and has participated in the area of documentary photography and different productions.

Acquired notoriety with his first feature "Mil nubes de paz cercan el cielo, amor, jamás acabarás de ser amor" (A Thousand Clouds of Peace) (2003) being considered by the critic Jorge Ayala Blanco one of the twenty best films in the history of Mexican cinema.