Rodney Llaverías
Directing
Biography
Rodney Llaverías is a Dominican-American filmmaker with a graduate degree in Screenwriting & Directing from Columbia University. His shorts have screened at Rotterdam, San Sebastián, Locarno, New Orleans Film Festival, Miami Film Festival, Max Ophüls Preis Film Festival, Outfest, and the Guadalajara International Film Festival. He is also a Berlinale Talents alumn and a 2022 recipient of the Newfest New Voices Filmmaker grant in partnership with Netflix in support of emerging LGBTQ+ filmmakers. Rodney is the co-writer of the short film "Darling" which won the Orizzonti Award for Best Short at the Venice International Film Festival in 2019, Special Mention at SXSW, and an official selection at TIFF. Rodney received the Katharina Otto-Bernstein production grant for his short film Tropicalía. Tropicalía is based on his project La Canícula which will be his feature directorial debut.
Known For
Naive Shani helps his transgender friend and crush audition for the lead in an erotic dance show.
Darling
A lonely, gay 13-year-old reflects on his complicated love for his volatile sister, the night she humiliated him, and her disappearance from their small, Southern town.
Truck Slut
The summer sun sets in rural Appalachia as twelve year old Cadie and her neighbor, Sarah, redefine their friendship in the eve of burgeoning sexuality.
Molt
Nuns care for a group of boys in a small northern village in the Dominican Republic. In the peak of summer, a young nun’s curiosity collides with the sexual awakening of one of the boys, taking both on a tense and unexpected path.
Holly Hill
Dolores, a robust and disconnected woman relegated to the care-taking of her crazed and ailing mother is suddenly usurped from her usual life when a wounded dog falls from the sky onto the rooftop of her home. Through this new found friendship Dolores finds a way out of her monotony and embraces her wild side.
Tropicalía
When a two headed calf is born in a remote and superstitious town, Marino, a peculiar adolescent will find himself coming to terms with his sexuality.