Rhys Ernst

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

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.

Known For

Director

2019
Adam

as Director

2018
Umbrella

as Director

2016
We've Been Around

as Director

2015
This Is Me

as Director

2014
Dear Lou Sullivan

as Director

2014
Transparent

as Director

2012
She Gone Rogue

as Director

2012
The Thing

as Director

2009
N Train

as Director

2003
The Drive North

as Director

Actor

2014
Transparent

as Waiter

2010
The Owls

as House Party Guest / Interview

Producer

2021
Death and Bowling

as Executive Producer

2015
This Is Me

as Supervising Producer

Writer

2012
The Thing

as Writer

2009
N Train

as Writer

Camera

Unison

as Assistant Camera