Owned and operated by former Police Captain Donna Roman Hernandez who served 30 years in law enforcement in New Jersey.
Founded in 2005 Blue Force Films LLC is a film/movie production company based in New Jersey specializing in documentaries, short and feature narrative films. Retired Police Captain Donna Roman Hernandez is the founder and CEO of Blue Force Films LLC. She was born, raised and educated in the City of Newark, New Jersey.
She is an award-winning Director and Producer who is often called upon as a Police Consultant for TV/movie productions. To date, Donna has won 32 international and domestic awards for her documentaries and narrative films that she directed, produced, scripted, was the Director of Casting and DP/Cinematographer. She was named a ‘Rising Star’ by the New York International Film Festival.
The first documentary Donna directed and produced is her memoir, THE ULTIMATE BETRAYAL: A SURVIVOR’S JOURNEY that exposed the decades of domestic violence she and her mother endured at the hands of her father, a law enforcement Constable.
Her second film CLOSURE, is a short narrative that is a tribute to the memory of the police officers and other first responders who perished in the World Trade Center 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Donna’s third film is a short documentary, A CALL FOR VALOR, that tells how Sgt. Ken Hogan of the Irvington (NJ) Police Department defied death after an armed gunman ambused the Sergeant in his police car and put several rounds into his body--the last one in his head.
Her fourth film is a documentary, NEWARK STREET PREACHERS, that tells how four Afro-American Pastors mobilized their congregrations inside the churches and into the streets to stop the killing of young people from gang violence in the City of Newark, New Jersey.
Donna’s fifth film is a documentary, STREET JUSTICE, about Hashim Garrett, a 15-year old street gang member from Brooklyn, New York and his spiritual redemption after being shot multiple times by a rival gangster, paralyzed and left for dead on a Brooklyn street corner.
Donna’s sixth documentary, FALLEN BLUE HEROES, is a tribute to law enforcement officers nationwide who have been killed in the line of duty, whose names are inscribed annually on the Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C.
Her seventh film is a feature narrative, CROSSING BLOODLINES, that tells the story of loyalty betrayed between an Italian mob boss, his corrupt Detective Sergeant cousin and their childhood friend, now a Police Lieutenant who is determined to send them to prison.
Her eighth film is a documentary series, COP SHOT: THE AFTERMATH, that features six Police Officers from New Jersey telling their amazing stories of survival after being shot in the line of duty.
Her ninth film is a short narrative, THE END, that was inspired by a true event. It tells what happened at the end of a toxic dating relationship between two police officers after one of them was served with a temporary domestic violence restraining order.
Her most recent film is a short documentary, RONNIE’S STORY, is about an 82-year-old survivor of marital domestic violence, Veronica 'Ronnie' Welch, tells how she survived decades of psychological and physical abuse at the hands of her husband and shares how her volunteerism with the Woodbridge (NJ) Police Department''s Domestic Violence Response Team empowers other victims of domestic violence to leave their abusers and heal from the trauma of violence.
