Rodrigo Dorfman

Rodrigo Dorfman, born in Chile, in 1967, is an award-winning writer, filmmaker and visual storyteller who lives in Durham, North Carolina. For the past 20 years, he has been documenting the emerging Latino community in North Carolina through a series of hybrid educational, neo-realist films and documentaries centered around the everyday lives of immigrants. As a co-writer with his father Ariel Dorfman he has worked with HBO, Salma Hayek's Ventanazul, Chanel 4 and the BBC among others. With his father he has won best screenplay award from the Writer's Guild of Great Britain for "Prisoners in Time" (1997).With His films and photographs have been exhibited at Levine Museum, the Atlanta History Center, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, SECCA, Duke University, Durham History Museum, and at the MAK center in Los Angeles.
His films have also screened on PBS stations across the US and at some of the top international film festivals in the world. His documentary This Taco Truck Kills Fascists won the Best Louisiana Feature Award at the New Orleans Film Festival (2018) and in 2019, FIESTA! Quinceañera, part of UNCTV’s Reel South series, premiered on PBS stations nationwide. He is currently working on Los Desobedientes (The Disobedient Ones), a reverse migration love story produced by Peter Eversoll and Nuevo South and finishing his memoirs Generation Exile: Making a Home in the Nuevo South. Rodrigo Dorfman is also a playwright, film critic, essayist, multimedia journalist and ethnographer.