Rodrigo Reyes
2024 Eureka Fellow
Rodrigo Reyes is an Oakland-based Mexican filmmaker. His films are deeply grounded in his identity as an immigrant artist, crafting a poetic gaze from the margins, and using striking imagery to portray the contradictory nature of our shared world while revealing the potential for transformative change.
Reyes has received the support of The Mexican Film Institute (IMCINE), the Sundance Institute, and the Tribeca Institute. His films have been featured on PBS and Netflix. His film 499 won Best Cinematography at Tribeca and the Special Jury Award at Hot Docs. Rodrigo is a recipient of Guggenheim and Creative Capital Awards as well as a Rainin Fellowship and SF Indie Vanguard Award.
For years, he has mentored the next generation of diverse artists through his work as a member of the Board of Directors for Video Consortium and Co-Director of the BAVC Mediamaker Fellowship. He also teaches masterclasses at renowned institutions such as UnionDocs, Princeton, The New School, UCLA, UC Berkeley's Journalism School, San Francisco State University, and Stanford University. In 2022, Rodrigo won the Best Film Award at Sheffield DocFest with his latest feature, Sansón and Me, which is being distributed by Cinema Guild and will be broadcast on PBS’ Independent Lens in 2023.
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