BraveMaker Mastermind with filmmaker RUDY VALDEZ

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Two-time Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Rudy Valdez has become known in the entertainment
industry for his commitment to telling powerful, diverse, and dynamic stories through an unparalleled
and self-taught cinematic lens. His ability to capture the essence of human emotion and experience has
earned him critical acclaim and has firmly established Valdez as a transformative and influential figure
in the world of filmmaking. Recent credits include the six-part docuseries “Choir” (Disney+) and the
poignant, award nominated documentary “Carlos” (Sony Pictures Classics, Imagine Documentaries)
both of which Valdez served as Director, Executive Producer, and Cinematographer. Both films were
official selections at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival, with “Carlos” earning a 2023 Critics’ Choice
Documentary Award nomination for Best Music Documentary. Valdez’s award-winning documentary
short “Translators” (in partnership with U.S. Bank) also recently debuted and was an official selection at
LALIFF and the Tribeca Film Festival and won the Tribeca X Award for Best Short Documentary.
Valdez’s breakthrough project “The Sentence” (HBO, 2018) marked his directorial debut. Shot over the
course of a decade, “The Sentence” put Valdez on the map as a director and filmmaker on the rise,
winning the 2019 Primetime Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking, the US
Documentary Audience Award at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and he was a 2018 Critics Choice
Documentary Awards Best New Director nominee. Valdez currently helms Bluff Road Films, an
independent production company focused on creating meaningful social, cultural, and political stories
while championing equity both on screen and behind the camera. Its critically acclaimed projects have
premiered at prestigious festivals and have been distributed by major platforms such as Netflix, HBO,
and Disney+, to name a few.