Rodney Evans has been making award-winning films and videos for over twenty years. He 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 garnered four Independent Spirit Award nominations, including Best First Film, Best First Screenplay, Best Debut Performance for Anthony Mackie, and Best Supporting Male Performance for Roger Robinson. Evans has received funding from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Ford Foundation, Creative Capital, ITVS, and Black Public Media. His second narrative feature, The Happy Sad, has played at over thirty film festivals throughout the world and had its US theatrical premiere in 2013 at the IFC Center in New York and the Sundance Sunset Cinema in Los Angeles. His latest feature length film, Vision Portraits, had its world premiere in the Documentary Feature Competition at the 2019 SXSW Film Festival. It played theatrically in major US cities from August to October 2019 and was broadcast nationally on the PBS series America ReFramed in 2020. Evans is the recent recipient of the 2019 Frameline Award for Career Achievement and a Sundance Momentum Fellowship for 2020.