In 2016, he received nominations for Best Director at the 58th and 62nd Ariel Awards in Mexico for his work in the films Te Prometo Anarquía and Cómprame Un Revólver.

[1] Hernández Cordón was subsequently registered at the Mexican and Guatemalan embassies in Washington and raised between Mexico, Guatemala and Costa Rica.

[1] In his youth, he worked in a record store and afterwards as a reporter for the newspaper El Periodico in Guatemala, where he covered news and the cultural sections.

[1] During his tenure in the newspaper, Hernández Cordón also published the story book Por El Suelo (2000), which he later repented.

[7] While reviewing the film, Variety stated that the director "prominently displays his pitifully scarce resources in the guise of minimalism".

[10][11] Polvo (2012), about a couple of documentary filmmakers with the task of telling the story of women who are still searching for their missing husbands or parents during the long civil war that devastated Guatemala between 1960 and 1996, was nominated for the Golden Leopard Awards at the Locarno International Film Festival.

[14] It shows two characters: a boy with mental retardation that promotes the vote for a presidential candidate, promising them that if they vote for him, the country would qualify for their first World Cup, and a graffiti artist showing his discontent, and the film had intentionally "super crappy and flat performances", since was a critique of the socio-political frustrations in Guatemala.