Rodrigo Dorfman
Country:
Chile
Company:
Art
The son of Ariel Dorfman. Dorfman has focused his lens on immigrants, musi- cians, people with disabilities, and thehuman impact of social and political events. His body of work shows his artistic range, his empathy, and his curiosity about the ways
in which people struggle and come to terms with the powerful forces that buffet their lives. His interests have led him to be agile in how he approaches his subject matter, always searching for the appropriate cinematic language to reveal something beyond the image. As he explains, "My aesthetics emerge from hybridity and experimentation. It's a frame of mind that comes when you hopscotch the borders ofconventional do- cumentary and fictional forms. It's a position that values, above all, emotional truth".
Rodrigo Dorfman is a 2018-2019 N.C. Arts Council Artist Fellowship recipi- ent. His work has been screened at the Toronto International Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, and Edinburgh Film Festival, among many others. He won the Best
Screenplay Award, with his father, for Prisoners in Time from the Writers' Guild of Great Britain (1997) and Best Short Jury Award from Full Frame Documentary Film Festival for One Night in Kernersville (2011).
As a multimedia producer, he has worked with POV, HBO, and Salma Hayek's Ventanazul. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with an
M.A. in Journalism and Mass Communication, he now lives in Durham. 206