Rodney Evans

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Rodney Evans

Rodney Evans is a fiction and documentary filmmaker. His films include BROTHER TO BROTHER (Sundance-Special Jury Prize, Berlinale) and VISION PORTRAITS (SxSW, Frameline-Best Documentary). Evans is a Guggenheim Fellow, Sundance Momentum Fellow, Ford/Mellon Disability Futures Fellow and an NEH/Firelight Media Spark Fund Award Recipient.

Known For

GummoGummo · 1997
Gummo
6.61997
MovieDramaComedy
Teenagers Solomon and Tummler kill time in Xenia, Ohio, a small town that has never recovered from the tornado that ravaged the community in the 1970s.
Brother to BrotherBrother to Brother · 2004
Brother to Brother
5.52004
MovieDrama
A drama that looks back on the Harlem Renaissance from the perspective of an elderly, black writer who meets a gay teenager in a New York homeless shelter.
The Happy SadThe Happy Sad · 2013
The Happy Sad
5.22013
MovieRomanceDrama
Two young couples in New York-one black and gay, one white and heterosexual-find their lives intertwined as they create new relationship norms, explore sexual identity, and redefine monogamy.
The Mountain KingThe Mountain King · 2000
The Mountain King
5.32000
MovieRomanceDrama
A reserved young man meets an impulsive stranger on a secluded beach. Their brief friendship leaves each subtly changed.
MayMay · 2019
May
2019
MovieDrama
A weary white French professor and a young black drug dealer share an impalpable connection on a single night in Philadelphia.
Vision PortraitsVision Portraits · 2019
Vision Portraits
7.02019
MovieDocumentary
Filmmaker Rodney Evans embarks on a scientific and artistic journey, questioning how his loss of vision might impact his creative future. Through illuminating portraits of three artists: a photographer (John Dugdale), a dancer (Kayla Hamilton), and a writer (Ryan Knighton), the film looks at the ways each artist was affected by the loss of their vision and the ways in which their creative process has changed or adapted.
PortalPortal · 2022
Portal
2022
Movie
Reflections on connection during the pandemic, and finding joy in small and unsuspecting ways.
Two EncountersTwo Encounters · 2000
Two Encounters
8.02000
Movie
Armed with hidden buttonhole cameras two gay men, one black and one white, go to two gay bars in New York, one predominantly black and one predominantly white, to uncover the “racialized geographies of New York’s gay bar scene.”

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