Eliaz Rodriguez

International-Award-Winning Filmmaker from Chicago

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Here's the latest from Eliaz's Instagram, featuring trailers, BTS, and events for his new films "Silica", "The Journey Inward" & "The Big Slip"

Nominated for Best Comedy Short for “Mid 30s Martyr” at @cindependentfilmfestival! And our lead actress @alexandriaalysem is nominated for “Best Actress in a Short Film”! What an honor it was to get to direct her as she slayed in the role/film my brother @donnyrad wrote 🙌 Cheers & fingers crossed for our whole cast & crew at the festival at the end of this month! #mid30smartyr #claimyourcindependence
The 🔥 program page for the @filmquest shorts block my film “Compartmentalization Storage Facility” is screening in Sept 13 in Utah! #csfmovie #compartmentalizationstoragefacility
I have arrived at @safilm fests for the screening of Compartmentalization Storage Facility tomorrow at 1pm!!! #csfmovie #compartmentalizationstoragefacility
Honored to win the “Mary Hughes Award” at the Cordillera International Film Fest!!! Mary once said, “There is no normal way of looking at the world if you know who you are.” And all the nominees are filmmakers “who took an original or unusual perspective and made it their own” which was the goal of my brother @donnyrad and mine in making this film! Cheers and thanks to the cast and crew of #csfmovie #compartmentalizationstoragefacility @the_ciffnv #ciffnv2019
Celebrating my bday in Reno at the Cordillera International Film Fest 🥳 Thanks for all the bday wishes!
In LA and caught my brother on his bday. And there’s new transplant @gracianotgarcia4! 📸 @keightyart
Last morning in México 🇲🇽
@FilmQuest, a festival on Movie Maker’s “Bloody Best Genre Fests in the World” list, has accepted “Compartmentalization Storage Facility” 🙌🐙🤘It was amazing to help adapt @donnyrad’s stage sketch into the “magical realism” genre of film, though I wasn’t even sure it would fully qualify as a ‘genre film’ so this is a huge surprise and honor! #csfmovie #filmquest2019
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Mid 30s Martyr is nominated for “U.S. Comedy Short” award at @austinrevolution! The other photos are from last year when I was fortunate to win their sick belt-buckle trophy. Congrats to the #mid30smartyr team, and competition! Fingers crossed for a 2019 buckle. Thanks to Jim and his fest team!
Wooo both new films I directed were accepted to @cindependentfilmfestival! This festival was a dream to attend in its first year last year and I’m excited for both film teams, led by writer @donnyrad and producers John Piotrowski & Jeremy Meador, to have all of our work screen to the Cincinnati audience. Thanks fest director @allyson_the_instagreat and her killer festival team! #mid30smartyr #compartmentalizationstoragefacility #csfmovie
When you and a friend are wandering down side streets in Mexico City and you happen upon this tiny carnival with a target practice game and an old lady who reloads the BB gun like a boss.
Awesome news 🙌 both of the new shorts I directed, written by my brother @donnyrad, will be screening on my birthday weekend at the Cordillera International Film Fest!!! This will be the World Premiere of “Compartmentalization Storage Facility” and the second festival for “Mid30s Martyr” which recently won Best Micro Short at ME Fest. The last time I was in Reno for this fest ran by @emilyskyle I had the time of my life. She knows how to run a great one and I can’t wait for this year’s! Thanks to the casts & crews of both films for slaying it. I’m pumped audiences will get to see all of their work back to back🤘
Casa Estudio Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo 📸: @keightyart

#ElaminaFilmsTour

Eliaz traveled to 30 out of the 50 film festivals Think Twice was accepted to. Here are some photos from the Elamina Films (his production company) Tour.

I made fast friends with @denniscahlo (center) at @austinrevolution film fest this year. Then we got to record an episode of his podcast #thecaryallenpictureshow at @adkfilmfest this last weekend. We talked about a ton of things including what festival awards may [or may not according to him] mean to filmmakers and then 1 hour later he won this “Best Comedy Short” award 😄 Also, thanks to @gmarslett (right) for the life-affirming conversation of the bleak reality we live in, at 1am on Friday — many things have been inspiring me to create lately and that was one of them. Let’s make good art and be relentless, friends ✊ #elaminafilmstour
Thanks @adkfilmfest for bringing together amazing filmmakers (so many friends, new and old) and audiences for three screenings of #silicathemovie! #elaminafilmstour
Chillin +1 style with my fellow friend and filmmaker @eliazrod at the @katrafilmseries sidebar at Wine Legend downtown Brooklyn. New films, new faces, new friends. * 📷 by Samsung Galaxy Note 9, selfie booth by @samsungus 🎥🎬🎥🎬🎥 * #katranyc #katrafilmseries #filmmakers #friendsinfilm #samsung #note9 #nynights #downtownbrooklyn #winelegend #independentfilm #shortfilm #pilsner #silica #elaminafilmstour #bigcitybrightlights
#Repost @eliazrod with @get_repost ・・・ The @katrafilmseries Samsung photo booth last night with homie @btoddsworld. Thanks to festival director Geoffrey Guerrero for screening #silicathemovie along side other Latinx produced films. #elaminafilmstour
The @katrafilmseries Samsung photo booth last night with homie @btoddsworld. Thanks to festival director Geoffrey Guerrero for screening #silicathemovie along side other Latinx produced films. #elaminafilmstour
I’ve had some great film fest experiences over the last two months and thanks to photographer Chris Thomas of Radiant Exposures for capturing these moments at the @genreblast Film Fest. Going to GB is the closest film experience I’ve felt to going to a metal show. People making kickass art to share with others in their community, who aren’t going to stop even if it’s not widely accepted, and are ready to support each other when we get knocked down. Also in both cases 95% of people are wear black t-shirts 😂 Cheers to the GB team! Also it was great to share a Q&A with Saba who speaks his mind, does what he loves in exactly the way he wants and is ready to share advice to make everyone around him better. He also made a hilarious short. #gb3 #genreblast #elaminafilmstour
Glad I got to check out @middlecoastfest’s first year in Chicago! Even though I missed my screening of #silicathemovie on Friday it was great to hear all of the positive feedback about the film. Thanks to @jeslevdos and her team for bringing great people together and throwing an awesome closing party! #elaminafilmstour
Aug 1st - Today I am a different person now from the person I was 7 weeks ago and I have an entirely new plan for the future than the one I had on August 1st. I am thankful for all of those who took me in or lent an ear or shared their ideas with me. You really opened my mind to what is possible. Excited to see you, Chicago. This is only a short trip before I continue on 🎢 #elaminafilmstour
I have done what I once thought impossible. Won the award/trophy you can wear, the @austinrevolution belt-buckle award!!! This one specifically named after Texas Legend, the Cubs’ own Kerry Wood. Thanks James for saying “This filmmaker is hard working on the circuit, out there making his own stuff, traveling and also supporting others in a very ARFF way.” I’m humbled 🙏 #arff2018 #elaminafilmstour
Elamina Films (my production company) on the big screen at the @burbankfilmfest!!! Happy to be an Associate Producer of Off Book and help them on their film festival journey. Congrats to Mindy, Eric, and the rest of the team on the continued success! #elaminafilmstour
Hanging out with the traveling-filmmaker all stars at @genreblast 🌟 #elaminafilmstour #silicathemovie
Allyson West set a new bar for first year film festivals with the @cindependentfilmfestival. Her efforts, along with the city and her team, were relentless with providing a great experience for filmmakers and local theater goers. It made me proud to be a Midwesterner. Put it on your watchlist! #claimyourcindependence #elaminafilmstour #silicathemovie
@cindependentfilmfestival closing night dance party y’all!
At the @cindependentfilmfestival for the #silicathemovie screening. #claimyourcindependence #elaminafilmstour @minimicrocinema
Made it to Amsterdam for @filmfestint’s opening party and #silicathemovie screening! #elaminafilmstour
First stop after I leave Chicago... London! For the premiere of my 8mm short “The Journey Inward”. It’ll be on a massive screen at the British Film Institute Southbank for @straight_8_ London 😵 can’t wait! A still from #JourneyInwardFilm is underneath the bird, 3rd from the right. #elaminafilmstour
📸 by @matthewstromer at the infamous Biograph theater after the #silicathemovie world premiere. #elaminafilmstour
My short “Silica” has been accepted to the inaugural @cindependentfilmfestival! @allyson_the_instagreat is an amazing filmmaker herself and now she’s putting together this killer fest in Cinci. So glad #silicathemovie will be a part of it! #elaminafilmstour
NALIP Awards red carpet! Also, 1,000th Instagram post 📲🎉 #thickheadedshow #weareinclusion #elaminafilmstour
Spending the next couple months writing my first feature... #weareinclusion Art piece by @fabulousnino #elaminafilmstour

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