Mexican director Rodrigo García has directed a variety of independent films, including the award-winning Nine Lives; the three-time Academy Award-nominated feature Albert Nobbs, starring Glenn Close; and Mother and Child, starring Annette Bening, Naomi Watts, and Samuel L. Jackson.
In 2000, García’s first film as a writer and director, Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her, won the Un Certain Regard Award at the Cannes Film Festival. Last Days in the Desert, starring Ewan McGregor, premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. His 2021 film Four Good Days, starring Glenn Close and Mila Kunis and directed and co-written by Rodrigo, premiered at Sundance as well.
Among his television credits are the cable series In Treatment, on which he served as executive producer and showrunner for the first season and received a Writers Guild of America Award in the New Series category. Other TV credits include Sopranos, Six Feet Under, Carnivale, and Big Love, for which he directed the pilot episode and was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series. Garcia also directed the pilots for CBS’s hit drama Bull starring Michael Weatherly and of the Party of Five reboot from Freeform and Sony Pictures Television.
García is also the co-CEO of Indigenous Media, a next generation digital studio focused on producing original content for digital and emerging platforms worldwide. He is co-creator of WIGS, the digital drama channel offering more than 180 episodes of scripted content. For WIGS, García wrote and directed the series Blue, starring Julia Stiles, and Christine, starring America Ferrera.
