Mexican Director Rodrigo Reyes has screened his award-winning work worldwide, at festivals such as LA Film Festival, BFI London and The Museum of Modern Art in New York, garnering great reviews in and the New York Times. Rodrigo has received significant support for his work, including from Film Independent, Sundance Institute, Tribeca Film Institute, and in 2017, the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship.
499 YEARS examines the brutal legacy of colonialism nearly five centuries after Cortez arrived in the Aztec Empire. Bold, unique, and strikingly cinematic, the film uses magical realism, combining documentary and fiction to show how past traumas continue to affect contemporary reality, while challenging us to overcome our histories of violence.
Sanson and Me is a coming-of-age story focusing on two Mexican immigrants with parallel lives.