Rodrigo Dorfman

Quick Facts

Full Name	Rodrigo Dorfman
Occupation	Filmmaker
Date Of Birth	Feb 11, 1967(1967-02-11)
Age	57
Birthplace	Santiago
Country	Chile
Birth City	Santiago Metropolitan Region
Horoscope	Aquarius

Rodrigo Dorfman Biography

Rodrigo Dorfman is one of the most popular and richest Filmmaker who was born on February 11, 1967 in Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile. Rodrigo Dorfman, a multi-award winning filmmaker and producer, was born 1967 in Santiago, Chile. He currently resides in Durham, North Carolina. He has worked for POV, HBO and Salma Hayek’s Ventanazul, as well as the BBC. His films were screened at the most prestigious international film festivals (Toronto Full Frame, Edinburgh Telluride, Telluride, Human Rights Watch).

Rodrigo’s feature documentary Generation Exile (2010) was first shown at Full Frame 2010. It then screened at the SANFIC 6. It won the LASA (Latin America Studies Association Merit Award in Film) in 2010. Rodrigo also won the Full Frame Jury Award in Film 2011 for One Night in Kernersville, his jazz documentary. Tommy! Tommy! Occupy the Imagination, the first part of his Resistance Trilogy documentary series, Tales of Resistance and Seduction was shown at the SANFIC Santiago International Film Festival 2013. It received Special Jury Mention. The film was shown at the Havana International Film Festival. He was the cinematographer and editor of Always in Season, a Sundance-award winning documentary about the effects of lynching in three communities. His most recent film, This Taco Truck Kills Fascists is a documentary about a Revolutionary Taco Truck Theatre located in New Orleans. It won the Best Louisiana Feature Award at New Orleans Film Festival. FIESTA!Quinceanera is a digital series about quinceaneras that he directed with Peter Eversoll. It was recently launched on the StoryCast YouTube Channel. Peter Eversoll was the creative producer. The series was adapted into a feature documentary that was broadcast across the country on PBS’s Season 4 of REEL SOUTH.

For the past 20 years, Rodrigo Dorfman has been documenting the emerging Latino community in North Carolina through a series of hybrid educational/neo- realist films (Angelica’s Dreams and [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYIwlchDeSE Roberto’s Dreams]) and VIVA LA COOPERATIVA[6] – a feature documentary on the history of the first Latino Credit Union in the US. Angelica’s Dreams (2008) won the Dora Maxwell Award in Social Responsibility. His documentary work was the foundation of the traveling national exhibit “NUEVOlution!” Latinos and the New South was exhibited at the Levine Museum of the New South and the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. For his work in the Nuevolution, he was awarded the AMA MUSE Award in Media and Technology. The exhibit is at the Levine Museum of the New South. Rodrigo was the community curator for Nuevo Espiritu Durham, an exhibit at the Durham History Museum about the history of Latinos living in Durham.

Rodrigo Dorfman Net Worth

Rodrigo Dorfman is one of the richest Filmmaker from Chile. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Rodrigo Dorfman 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Rodrigo Dorfman, his father and screenwriter, won the 1996 Writer’s Guild of Great Britain Award, for best television screenplay. It was for the BBC VJ Day special Prisoners in Time starring John Hurt. This was followed by Deadline, an English movie for Channel 4 that was shown in 1998 as part of the 50th anniversary celebration of the Declaration of Human Rights. Konfidenz was a BBC radio play that he co-wrote along with his father. It was broadcast in England in spring 2001. Shaheed, which he co-wrote with his father, was aired in England in Spring 2001.

Rodrigo contributed to Andre Codrescu’s Exquisite Corpse as well as the Durham Herald-Sun’s award-winning bilingual “Nuestro Pueblo”. He was also the Triangle’s Spectator Magazine’s film critic (2000-01), and a commentator on WUNC Radio. His photographs were published in the Style Section and Global Rhythm Magazine.

Over the last decade, Rodrigo Dorfman has also worked on a number of projects in collaboration with different members and organizations of the Durham African American community. His collaboration with Jazz musician and band leader John Brown led to the short One Night in Kernersville, which won the Full Frame Jury Award in 2011 and the Best Cinematography Award at the Charlotte Film Festival. He spent three years working and documenting the creation of the Durham Civil Rights Mural, the first publicly funded public art work by the City of Durham. From the process, a 30-minute short, Living Colors was created and played at the local Hayti Film Festival. Rodrigo also worked with Brenda Miller-Holmes and a dozen community muralists who worked on the project and created an community centered exhibit called MURALIST!. During the creation of the Mural, Rodrigo Dorfman befriended the great civil rights warrior Ann Atwater. Rodrigo Dorfman quickly noticed that Ann Atwater kept complaining about her bed being too small. She was full of sores because she had no room to turn around. Rodrigo immediately created a series of video shorts about her needs, started a crowdsourcing campaign and helped raise $6,000 in less than one week in order to buy Ann Atwater the bed she needed. Rodrigo Dorfman also worked on Mayor Bill Bell’s Anti Poverty Campaign by creating a video to educate employers on the Second Chance program, facilitating the hiring of formerly incarcerated folk. He worked with SpiritHouse creating short fundraiser videos for their Harm Free Zone campaign. Rodrigo was commissioned to collaborate with Nia Wilson (SpiritHouse) on an essay/dialogue The Sweetness and the Spoil, Durham stories of Resistance. The essay featured Rodrigo’s short film Mother to Mother: Collective Son, created in collaboration with a SpiritHouse and SONG. Rodrigo was then commissioned to create a documentary about SpiritHouse by Alternate Roots, the result was Reshaping the Mo(u)rning a powerful collaboration centered on the staging of the play Collective Sun: Reshape the Mo(u)rning.

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Facts & Trivia

Rodrigo Ranked on the list of most popular Filmmaker. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Chile. Rodrigo Dorfman celebrates birthday on February 11 of every year.