Rhys Ernst
Directing
- Born
- January 1, 1982 (age 44) · North Carolina, USA
Rhys Ernst is a filmmaker and artist. Ernst was nominated for a 2015 Emmy Award for directing and producing the webseries This Is Me. He created the award-winning trans history web series We’ve Been Around, and is a Producer, Director on Amazon’s Transparent; he also created the Transparent title sequence. Ernst has shown work in the Whitney Biennial, Sundance, Oberhausen, and The Hammer Museum; he has won awards at Outfest, Chicago International Film Festival and the LA Transgender Film Festival; he has won two GLAAD Awards, was a Point Scholar, a Project Involve Fellow, and was awarded the Point Foundation Horizon Award and the ACLU Liberty Award for his work on LGBTQ representation in the media. He lives in Los Angeles and is the director of the forthcoming feature ADAM.
Known for
Behind the camera11
- 2021Death and Bowling Executive Producer
- 2019Adam Director
- 2018Umbrella Director
- 2016We've Been Around Director
- 2014Dear Lou Sullivan Director
- 2012The Thing Director, Writer
- 2012She Gone Rogue Director
- 2009N Train Writer, Director
- 2009Secret Men's Club: Moment # 133 Director
- 2003The Drive North Director