Rodney Evans(I)

Rodney Evans is a writer/director/producer of fiction and documentary films. Credits include Brother To Brother (Winner-Sundance Film Festival-Special Jury Prize-Dramatic Competition), Billy and Aaron (Tribeca Film Festival) and Vision Portraits (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. It won the prize for Best Documentary at Frameline-The San Francisco Int'l. LGBT+ Film Festival, aired nationally on America Reframed and screened virtually for a week at the Whitney Museum in July 2020 in honor of the 30th Anniversary of the passing of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Evans was recently honored with the Frameline Award for Career Achievement and a 2020 Sundance Momentum Fellowship. He is a Ford/Mellon Disability Futures Fellow for 2021. Evans holds a BFA in Modern Culture and Media from Brown University and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in Film/Video Production.