Rodrigo Dorfman

Rodrigo Dorfman, born in Santiago, Chile, is an award-winning Latino writer, filmmaker and multimedia producer known for his work documenting the Great Latino Migration to the American South. He has worked with POV, HBO, Salma Hayek's Ventanazul and the BBC among others. His films have been screened at Toronto IFF, Full Frame, Cucalorus, Edinburgh, Telluride, Human Rights Watch among others. His plays have been staged in Japan, Germany and the USA. With his father, he won best screenplay award from the Writer's Guild of Great Britain for Prisoners in Time, starring John Hurt. His short One Night in Kernersville won the Jury Award for best short at Full Frame. His work has been exhibited at the Levine Museum of the New South, the Atlanta History Center, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. In 2018, His sci-fi/Latino documentary, This Taco Truck Kills Fascists won Best Louisiana Feature Award at the New Orleans FF, and his feature FIESTA! Quinceañera was broadcast on PBS stations nationwide. His latest film, Quaranteened, was broadcast on PBS stations in the spring of 2022. He was a contributor to Codrescu's Exquisite Corpse and he is an associate member of La Pocha Nostra. His memoir Generation Exile will be published by Arte Publico Press in March 2023.