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Rodney Evans

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 Berlin International Film Festival and was nominated for 2 IFP Gotham Awards and 4 Independent Spirit Awards including Best First Film and Best First Screenplay. His second feature-length screenplay, Day Dream, is the first place winner of the Newfest Screenplay competition. Evans has received funding from The Guggenheim Foundation, The Creative Capital Foundation, The NY State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), The Independent Television Service (ITVS) and The National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC). 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. It is currently available on all major digital platforms through Sundance Artist Services and Cinedigm. His most recent short film Persistence of Vision screened at BAMcinemaFest and Frameline-The San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival in June 2016. Evans has taught at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Princeton, Swarthmore, Bryn Mawr, Cooper Union and School of Visual Arts.