Rodrigo Reyes is an Oakland-based Mexican filmmaker. Reyes' films are deeply grounded in his identity as an immigrant artist and an outsider to two cultures. Using a poetic language that combines fictional and documentary elements, he hopes to capture the contradictory nature of our divided world while revealing our potential for transformative change. His work has screened at local, national and international film festivals. He is a member of SFFILM’s Diversity Advisory Board. Reyes' latest film, 499, won Best Cinematography at Tribeca and the Special Jury Award at Hot Docs, and will be distributed in the US in Summer 2021. He is a recipient of the Sundance Spotlight on Storytellers Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, and Creative Capital Award. In 2020, the Minneapolis Film Society held the first-ever retrospective of Reyes' films. He is a winner of the Pacific Pioneer Fund and the Berkeley Film Foundation Saul Zaentz Award.