Rodrigo Dorfman
Rodrigo Dorfman (born 1967 in Santiago, Chile) is a multimedia filmmaker living in Durham, North Carolina.
He has been documenting the emerging Latino community in North Carolina through a series of educational films (Angelica's Dreams and Roberto's Dreams) and VIVA LA COOPERATIVA - a feature documentary on the history of the first Latino Credit Union in the US.
As a multimedia producer he has created a series of online documentaries: Gnawa Stories; Kid Gloves for handling abducted children; American Shadows for POV; In the Footsteps of September 11; Latin American Multimedia Initiative.
He has worked with his father Ariel Dorfman on films including My House Is on Fire.[1]
As a screenwriter, Rodrigo Dorfman won, with his father, the 1996 Writer's Guild of Great Britain Award for best television screenplay for a BBC VJ Day special called Prisoners in Time, starring John Hurt. That was followed in 1998, with Deadline, a movie for Channel 4, England, shown as part of the 50th-anniversary celebration of the Declaration of Human Rights. Konfidenz, a radio play for the BBC, which he co-wrote with his father, was aired in England in Spring 2001. He also co-wrote Shaheed, for the BBC, a teleplay on suicide bombers, Los Angeles Open City, a pilot for HBO on Latinos in Los Angeles, and Blake's Therapy for Salma Hayek's company Ventanazul.
Rodrigo's first feature documentary Generation Exile (2010) premiered at Full Frame in 2010 and then went on to screen at the SANFIC 6. Rodrigo recently won the Full Frame Jury Award for the Best Short in 2011 for One Night in Kernersville.
Rodrigo has contributed to Andre Codrescu’s Exquisite Corpse and the Durham Herald-Sun’s award-winning bilingual page "Nuestro Pueblo"; he was the Triangle’s Spectator Magazine’s film critic (2000-01) and a commentator for WUNC Radio. His photographs have been published in the Style Section of the Washington Post and Global Rhythm Magazine.
Films
Director/Producer
- 1997 – My House is on Fire (18:00)
- 2004 – Missing Heather (15:00)
- 2005 – Security – Exile – Identity: Three shorts of POV
- 2006 – Weaving Dreams: An immigrant Woman’s Collective (13:00)
- 2007 – Angelica’s Dreams (82:30)
- 2008 – CartWheels: Art on the Move (15:00)
- 2008 – Voices Together (12:00)
- 2008 – Back to Deoband: The Jihad of Ebrahim Moosa (15:00)
- 2010 – Roberto’s Dreams (105:00)
- 2010 – !VIVA LA COOPERATIVA! (65:00)
- 2011 – Generation Exile (70:00)
- 2011 - One Night in Kernersville (20:00)
- 2012 - Monsieur Contraste (62:00)
- 2013 - Tommy! The Dreams I Keep Inside Me (30:00)
- 2013 - Occupy the Imagination (90:00)
Associate Producer
- 2007 – A Promise to the Dead (90:00)
Screenwriter
- 1996 – Prisoners in Time (BBC)
- 1998 – Deadline (Channel 4, England)
- 2000 – Los Angeles Open City (HBO)
- 2006 – Shaheed (BBC)
- 2008 – Blake’s Therapy (Salma Hayek/Ventanazul)
References
- ↑ Jaggi, Maya (14 June 2003). "Speaking for the dead". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 July 2011.