Rodrigo Dorfman

Who is Rodrigo Dorfman?

Rodrigo Dorfman is a multimedia filmmaker living in Durham, North Carolina.

He has been documenting the emerging Latino community in North Carolina through a series of educational films and VIVA LA COOPERATIVA - a feature documentary on the history of the first Latino Credit Union in the US.

As a multimedia producer he has created a series of online documentaries: Gnawa Stories; Kid Gloves for handling abducted children; American Shadows for POV; In the Footsteps of September 11; Latin American Multimedia Initiative.

He has worked with his father Ariel Dorfman on films including "My House Is on Fire".

As a screenwriter, Rodrigo Dorfman won, with his father, the 1996 Writer's Guild of Great Britain Award for best television screenplay for a BBC VJ Day special called Prisoners in Time starring John Hurt. That was followed in 1998, with Deadline, a movie for Channel 4, England. It was shown as part of the 50th anniversary celebration of the Declaration of Human Rights. And Konfidenz, a radio play for the BBC, which he co-wrote with his father, was aired in England in Spring 2001.