Rodrigo Dorfman is a North Carolina-based award-winning writer, multimedia producer and filmmaker, who has worked with ITVS, POV, HBO, Salma Hayek's Ventanazul and the BBC among others. His films have been screened at some of the top international film festivals in the world (Toronto, Full Frame, Edinburgh, Telluride, Human Rights Watch). With his father he has won the best screenplay award from the Writer's Guild of Great Britain for "Prisoners in Time" (1997). His short "One Night in Kernersville '' won the Jury Award for best short at Full Frame (2011). His documentary Fiesta! Quiceañera (2018) and Quaranteened, have been broadcast on PBS stations nationwide on REEL SOUTH. His work has been exhibited at the Levine Museum of the New South, at the Atlanta History Center, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, the MAK in Los Angeles, SECCA in Winston Salem.

For the past 20 years, Rodrigo Dorfman has been documenting the emerging Latino community in North Carolina through a series of hybrid educational/neo-realist films, Angelica's Dreams and Roberto's Dreams, and VIVA LA COOPERATIVA, a feature documentary on the history of the first Latino Credit Union. His documentary This Taco Truck Kills Fascists (2018) won Best Louisiana Feature Award at the New Orleans Film Festival. His latest feature, Bulls and Saints will be broadcast on PBS nationwide this Fall. In May, his memoir Generation Exile will be published by Arte Publico Press in May 2023 and his multimedia exhibit Aztecas and Cowboys will premiere in May at the Cameron Art Museum in Wilmington, North Carolina.

He is developing The Making of the Nuevo South, a TV Series on the immigrant Latino experience in the South, The Dream of the Bear, on the cross-border intersectionality of the revival of Native American Bear Dancing and The Disobedient One, a coming of age feature about cross-border bull riders and Norteños.

Rodrigo Dorfman is also a playwright, film critic, essayist, multimedia journalist and ethnographer.