Rodney Evans
Producer
Rodney Evans has been making award-winning films for more than 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 2004 Sundance Film Festival. The film had its European premiere at The Berlin International Film Festival and was nominated for two IFP Gotham Awards and four Independent Spirit Awards including Best First Film, Best First Screenplay, and Best Debut Performance for Anthony Mackie. His second feature-length screenplay, Day Dream, was the first place winner of the Newfest Screenplay competition. Evans has received funding from The Guggenheim Foundation, The Creative Capital Foundation, The NY State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), and ITVS. His second narrative feature, The Happy Sad, has played at more than thirty film festivals throughout the world and had its U.S. theatrical premiere in August 2013 at the IFC Center in NYC and the Sundance Sunset Cinema in Los Angeles. It was released in major cities in the U.S. throughout 2013 and was distributed on all major digital platforms through Sundance Artist Services and Cinedigm.
