Edith D. Rodriguez
Writing
Biography
Edith Rodriguez is an emerging Writer-Director who grew up between the mountains of Puerto Rico and cold winters of Wisconsin. After years of creating content for Fortune 100 companies, she began writing and directing to pursue her passion of narrative storytelling. Edith’s debut short film Pride was an official selection at the 2020 Philadelphia Latino Film Festival and was licensed to ShortsTV in US and Latin America. She was the co-writer of the short film Las Cruces which premiered at the 2019 Austin Film Festival. Her latest short film Ashes will be premiering in 2021. She was also a 2021 Dallas International Film Festival Screenplay Winner and 2020 Bluecat Top 5 Feature Finalist for her script South Side Girls. As a storyteller, her goal is to bring a fresh and authentic lens to characters and worlds we haven’t yet seen represented on screen. Check out her scripts page for current loglines.
Known For
After achieving success in her younger years, the brilliant septuagenarian Madeline Matlock rejoins the workforce at a prestigious law firm where she uses her unassuming demeanor and wily tactics to win cases and expose corruption from within. Inspired by the classic television series of the same name.
Matlock
Dexter Morgan awakens from a coma to find Harrison gone without a trace. Realizing the weight of what he put his son through, Dexter sets out for New York City, determined to find him and make things right. But closure won't come easy. When Miami Metro's Angel Batista arrives with questions, Dexter realizes his past is catching up to him fast. As father and son navigate their own darkness in the city that never sleeps, they soon find themselves deeper than they ever imagined - and that the only way out is together.
Dexter: Resurrection
A tragic summer romance set against the backdrop of the beautiful Texas countryside, Ashes is a bittersweet meditation on how grief and regret can intertwine and how we can choose to move past these feelings, or live alongside them.
Ashes
The bounds of love and tradition are tested when a teenage girl confronts her strict grandmother on Pride weekend.