Rhys Ernst

Biography

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.

Directed

1. Transparent (2014) — Director
2. Adam (2019) — Director
3. The Thing (2012) — Director
4. We've Been Around (2016) — Director
5. This Is Me (2015) — Director
6. N Train (2009) — Director
7. She Gone Rogue (2012) — Director
8. Secret Men's Club: Moment # 133 (2009) — Director
9. Umbrella (2018) — Director
10. Dear Lou Sullivan (2014) — Director
11. The Drive North (2003) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Transparent (2014) — Waiter
2. The Owls (2010) — House Party Guest / Interview
3. N Train (2009)
4. She Gone Rogue (2012)
5. Unison
6. Tales from the Closet (2018) — Self