Directing
Community Rating
4.3
TMDB estimate
Born
January 1, 1982 (age 44)
Born in
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.
Unison
as Assistant Camera
TBA
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Death and Bowling
as Executive Producer
2021
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Adam
as Director
2019
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Tales from the Closet
as Self
2018
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Umbrella
as Director
2018
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We've Been Around
as Director
2016
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This Is Me
as Director, Supervising Producer
2015
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Dear Lou Sullivan
as Director
2014
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Transparent
as Waiter, Director
2014
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The Thing
as Director, Writer
2012
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She Gone Rogue
as Director
2012
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The Owls
as House Party Guest / Interview
2010
—N Train
as Director, Writer
2009
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Secret Men's Club: Moment # 133
as Director
2009
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The Drive North
as Director
2003
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