Director

Rhys Ernst

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Directed movies: 7Directed series: 2All crew credits: 11

TMDB ID: 1538980

IMDb ID: nm3636870

Known for: Directing

Born: January 1, 1982

Age: 44

Place of birth: North Carolina, USA

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 2003 - 2021

Years active: 19

Average TMDB rating: 5.32

Wikidata: Q96245724

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Director (9)Assistant Camera (1)Executive Producer (1)

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Biography

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.

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