Rhys Ernst

Rhys Ernst

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.

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Rhys Ernst Movies

  • 2009
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    N Train

    N Train

    1 2009 HD

    A collage of MetroCards raises the curtain on the layered, cut-out animation of N Train, which captures the frenetic beat of city life with its...

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  • 2012
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    She Gone Rogue

    She Gone Rogue

    1 2012 HD

    While visiting her Auntie Holly, Darling enters a parallel, dream-like world, where a series of encounters with transfeminine figures (played by...

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  • 1970
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    Unison

    Unison

    1 1970 HD

    With its non-linear structure, Zackary Drucker’s dreamlike Unison imagines phases of an always evolving trans identity existing simultaneously...

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  • 2010
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    The Owls

    The Owls

    4.1 2010 HD

    Two middle-aged lesbian couples accidentally kill a younger girl and decide to cover it up. But their crime comes back to haunt them when an...

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  • 2021
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    Death and Bowling

    Death and Bowling

    1 2021 HD

    A transgender actor struggles with what it means to be seen after the beloved captain of his lesbian bowling league dies and a mysterious stranger...

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  • 2009
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    N Train

    N Train

    1 2009 HD

    A collage of MetroCards raises the curtain on the layered, cut-out animation of N Train, which captures the frenetic beat of city life with its...

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  • 2009
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    N Train

    N Train

    1 2009 HD

    A collage of MetroCards raises the curtain on the layered, cut-out animation of N Train, which captures the frenetic beat of city life with its...

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  • 2012
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    She Gone Rogue

    She Gone Rogue

    1 2012 HD

    While visiting her Auntie Holly, Darling enters a parallel, dream-like world, where a series of encounters with transfeminine figures (played by...

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  • 2016
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    We've Been Around

    We've Been Around

    9 2016 HD

    In this documentary, director Rhys Ernst tells the previously untold histories of transgender pioneers. Trans people have always been here,...

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  • 2009
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    Secret Men's Club: Moment # 133

    Secret Men's Club: Moment # 133

    1 2009 HD

    In the Secret Men's Club, a simple office exchange becomes a highly dramatized metaphor for exclusionary male culture, offering a sardonic critique...

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  • 2019
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    Adam

    Adam

    4.1 2019 HD

    Adam, an awkward teen, spends a summer with his older sister, who is part of New York City's lesbian and trans activist scene. He meets the girl of...

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  • 2018
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    Umbrella

    Umbrella

    1 2018 HD

    The story of four transgender individuals across America who are fighting for rights and representation in a challenging and changing world.

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  • 2014
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    Dear Lou Sullivan

    Dear Lou Sullivan

    1 2014 HD

    The story of Lou Sullivan, a transgender man and AIDS activist. Cutting VHS footage of Sullivan's trailblazing appearances on talk shows with...

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  • 2012
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    The Thing

    The Thing

    4.2 2012 HD

    There's something missing in Tristan and Zooey's relationship. Zooey has spent weeks planning a road trip to a mysterious roadside attraction known...

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  • 1970
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    Unison

    Unison

    1 1970 HD

    With its non-linear structure, Zackary Drucker’s dreamlike Unison imagines phases of an always evolving trans identity existing simultaneously...

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  • 2003
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    The Drive North

    The Drive North

    1 2003 HD

    Two youths bicker their way up the East Coast and through a discomforting and poignant transition into adulthood. Using still images, animation,...

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  • 2012
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    The Thing

    The Thing

    4.2 2012 HD

    There's something missing in Tristan and Zooey's relationship. Zooey has spent weeks planning a road trip to a mysterious roadside attraction known...

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  • 2014
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    Transparent

    Transparent

    6.4 2014 HD

    An LA family with serious boundary issues have their past and future unravel when a dramatic admission causes everyone's secrets to spill out.

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  • 2018
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    Tales From the Closet

    Tales From the Closet

    1 2018 HD

    The crypt has nothing on the closet when Ally Beardsley and guests share terrifying tales from before they came out.

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  • 1970
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    Tales From the Closet

    Tales From the Closet

    10 1970 HD

    THIS IS ME docu-series is an anthology of five 3-5 minute-long TRANSPARENT-inspired documentaries by five different trans and gender-nonconforming...

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  • 1970
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    Tales From the Closet

    Tales From the Closet

    10 1970 HD

    THIS IS ME docu-series is an anthology of five 3-5 minute-long TRANSPARENT-inspired documentaries by five different trans and gender-nonconforming...

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  • 1970
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    Tales From the Closet

    Tales From the Closet

    6.4 1970 HD

    An LA family with serious boundary issues have their past and future unravel when a dramatic admission causes everyone's secrets to spill out.

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