Rodney Evans

Director | Writer

Date of birth : 1971

City of birth : No data

Rodney Evans is a writer/director/producer of fiction and documentary films. Credits include Brother To Brother (2004-Winner-Sundance Film Festival-Special Jury Prize-Dramatic Competition), Billy and Aaron (2010-Tribeca Film Festival) and Vision Portraits (2019-SXSW-Documentary Competition). He is the recipient of IFP's Gordon Parks Award for Screenwriting for his fiction feature debut Brother To Brother. The film was nominated for 4 Film Independent Spirit Awards for Best First Feature, Best First Screenplay, Best Debut Performance-Anthony Mackie and Best Supporting Actor-Roger Robinson. It had its European premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival. His second fiction feature, The Happy Sad, had its theatrical premiere at the IFC Center in NYC and the Sundance Sunset Cinema in LA in 2013. His latest feature length film, Vision Portraits, had its world premiere in the Documentary Competition at SXSW in 2019 to universal critical acclaim. Evans was recently honored with the Frameline Award for Career Achievement and is a 2020 Sundance Institute Momentum Fellow.