13 Facts About Rodrigo Dorfman

Rodrigo Dorfman continues to live and work in Durham, North Carolina where his father works as a professor at Duke University since 1985.

Rodrigo Dorfman has worked locally in North Carolina creating short documentaries with NC Arts Council, the Wake County Magnet Schools, Duke University, North Carolina Humanities Council, Duke Music Dept.

In 1997, Rodrigo Dorfman worked with his father on Prisoners of Time, for which he won a Writer's Guild of Great Britain Award.

Rodrigo Dorfman co-wrote Shaheed, for the BBC, a teleplay on suicide bombers, Los Angeles Open City, a pilot for HBO on Latinos in Los Angeles, and Blake's Therapy for Salma Hayek's company Ventanazul.

Rodrigo Dorfman was the community curator of Nuevo Espiritu de Durham, an exhibit of the Durham History Museum on the history of Latinos in Durham.

Rodrigo Dorfman won the Full Frame Jury Award for the Best Short in 2011 for his jazz documentary, One Night in Kernersville.

Rodrigo Dorfman is an editor and cinematographer of the Sundance documentary Always in Season about the impact of lynching on three different communities.

Rodrigo Dorfman spent three years working and documenting the creation of the Durham Civil Rights Mural, the first publicly funded public art work by the City of Durham.

Rodrigo Dorfman was full of sores because she had no room to turn around.

Rodrigo Dorfman worked with SpiritHouse creating short fundraiser videos for their Harm Free Zone campaign.

Rodrigo Dorfman was then commissioned to create a documentary about SpiritHouse by Alternate Roots, the result was Reshaping the Morning a powerful collaboration centered on the staging of the play Collective Sun: Reshape the Morning.

Rodrigo Dorfman has contributed to Andre Codrescu's online journal Exquisite Corpse and the Durham Herald-Suns bilingual page "Nuestro Pueblo"; he was the Triangle's Spectator Magazines film critic and a commentator for WUNC radio.

Rodrigo Dorfman's photographs have been published in the Style Section of The Washington Post and Global Rhythm magazine.