RUDY VALDEZ
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Rudy Valdez is an Emmy Award-winning Michigan-raised filmmaker committed to creating social, cultural, and political stories through a cinematic and meaningful lens. He got his start in film as a camera operator on the Peabody Award-winning Sundance series BRICK CITY and then went on to direct THE SENTENCE (HBO), which was shot and directed by Rudy over the course of a decade. This feature documentary tells the very personal story of his sister’s plight in the criminal justice system while tackling subjects like mandatory minimums and sentencing reform. For this work, he won the 2019 Primetime Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking, U.S. Documentary Audience Award at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, and was a 2018 Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards Best New Director nominee. Rudy recently finished directing the five-part docuseries BROOKLYN SAINTS for Netflix. He is now releasing a feature documentary about Carlos Santana.