RODNEY EVANS – WRITER/DIRECTOR/PRODUCER

RODNEY EVANS

RODNEY EVANS is the writer/director/producer of the feature film Brother To Brother which won the Special Jury Prize in Drama at the Sundance Film Festival. The film had its European

premiere at the Berlinale and garnered four Independent Spirit Award nominations including Best First Film, Best First Screenplay, Best Debut Performance for Anthony Mackie and Best Supporting Male Performance for Roger Robinson. Evans has received funding from The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, The Ford Foundation’s JustFilms Program, The Creative Capital Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, The NY State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), The Independent Television Service (ITVS) and Black Public Media (BPM). His second narrative feature, The Happy Sad, has played at over thirty film festivals throughout the world

and had its U.S. theatrical premiere in August 2013 at the IFC Center in NYC and the Sundance Sunset Cinema in Los Angeles. Evans has taught at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Princeton

and Swarthmore. His latest feature length film, Vision Portraits, had its World Premiere in the Documentary Feature Competition at the 2019 SXSW Film Festival. It was released theatrically

at the Metrograph in NYC in August 2019 and went on to play to universal critical acclaim in eight major U.S. cities. The film screened virtually at the Whitney Museum for a week in honor

of the 30th Anniversary of the passing of the Americans with Disabilities Act in July 2020. Evans was recently honored with the 2019 Frameline Award for Career Achievement, a Sundance Momentum Fellowship for 2020 and Ford/Mellow Disability Futures Fellowship for 2020-21.