Rhys Ernst
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Rhys Ernst

Jan 1, 1982 - 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.

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Cast

Media
Movie2009N Train
Movie2012She Gone Rogue
MovieN/AUnison
Movie2010The OwlsHouse Party Guest / Interview
TV Show2014TransparentWaiter1
TV Show2018Tales from the ClosetSelf1

Crew

Media
Movie2021Death and BowlingExecutive ProducerProduction
Movie2009N TrainWriterWriting
Movie2009N TrainDirectorDirecting
Movie2012She Gone RogueDirectorDirecting
Movie2016We've Been AroundDirectorDirecting
Movie2009Secret Men's Club: Moment # 133DirectorDirecting
Movie2019AdamDirectorDirecting
Movie2018UmbrellaDirectorDirecting
Movie2014Dear Lou SullivanDirectorDirecting
Movie2012The ThingDirectorDirecting
MovieN/AUnisonAssistant CameraCamera
Movie2003The Drive NorthDirectorDirecting
Movie2012The ThingWriterWriting
TV Show2015This Is MeDirectorDirecting
TV Show2015This Is MeSupervising ProducerProduction
TV Show2014TransparentDirectorDirecting