Rodney Evans

Rodney Evans (writer, director, producer) is the recipient of The Independent Feature Project’s Gordon Parks Award for Screenwriting for his screenplay, Brother to Brother. He also recently received funding from ITVS, The Jerome Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation and The National Black Programming Consortium towards the writing and production of this project. Brother to Brother premiered at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival where it won the Special Jury Prize for passion of subject. The film had its European premiere at The Berlin International Film Festival in February 2004. His autobiographical film, Close to Home, has been shown at over 30 film festivals throughout the world. His previous feature-length project, The Unveiling, opened theatrically in Los Angeles and New York in 1998. Some of Evans’s post-production credits include editor on Mute Love by Patrice Mallard and assistant editor on Spring Forward by Tom Gilroy, Gummo by Harmony Korine and New Rose Hotel by Abel Ferrara.