Rudy Valdez

Rudy Valdez is an Emmy Award-winning Michigan-raised, New York City-based filmmaker committed to creating social, cultural, and political stories through a cinematic and meaningful lens. The Sentence (HBO), shot and directed by Valdez over the course of a decade, tells the very personal story of his sister’s plight in the criminal justice system while tackling subjects like mandatory minimums and sentencing reform. The Sentence won Valdez the 2019 Primetime Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking and the US Documentary Audience Award at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. Valdez’s most recent project, ReOpening Night, is a feature film about The Public Theater’s staging of a beloved New York City institution, Shakespeare in the Park. It premiered on HBO Max in December.

• Reopening Night
  2021

• Carlos. Il viaggio di Santana
  2023
• Translators
  2023
• Breakaway
  2021
• Reopening Night
  2021
• Make Him Known
  2020
• The Sentence
  The Sentence
  2018

• Breakaway
  2021
• Buried Above Ground
  2015

• Carlos. Il viaggio di Santana
  2023