He has worked with his father Ariel Dorfman on films including My House Is on Fire. As a screenwriter, Rodrigo Dorfman won, with his father, the 1996 Writer"s Guild of Great Britain Award for best television screenplay for a British Broadcasting Corporation VJ Day special called Prisoners in Time, starring John Hurt.
He has been documenting the emerging Latino community in North Carolina through a series of educational films (Angelica"s Dreams and Roberto"s Dreams) and VIVA Los Angeles COOPERATIVA - a feature documentary on the history of the first Latino Cr Union in the United States. As a multimedia producer he has created a series of online documentaries: Gnawa Stories. Kid Gloves for handling abducted children. American Shadows for POV.
In the Footsteps of September 11.
Latin American Multimedia Initiative. That was followed in 1998, with Deadline, a movie for Channel 4, England, shown as part of the 50th-anniversary celebration of the Declaration of Human Rights.
Konfidenz, a radio play for the British Broadcasting Corporation, which he co-wrote with his father, was aired in England in Spring 2001. He also co-wrote Shaheed, for the British Broadcasting Corporation, a teleplay on suicide bombers, Los Angeles Open City, a pilot for Home Box Office on Latinos in Los Angeles, and Blake"s Therapy for Salma Hayek"s company Ventanazul.
Rodrigo"s first feature documentary Generation Exile (2010) premiered at Full Frame in 2010 and then went on to screen at the SANFIC 6.
Rodrigo has contributed to Andre Codrescu’s Exquisite Corpse and the Durham Herald-Sun’s award-winning bilingual page "Nuestro Pueblo". He was the Triangle’s Spectator Magazine’s film critic (2000-2001) and a commentator for WUNC Radio. His photographs have been published in the Style Section of the Washington Post and Global Rhythm Magazine.
