Biography
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.
Filmography
Cast Credits
Crew
Crew Credits

Death and Bowling
Role: Executive Producer
MOVIE • 2021

Adam
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2019

Umbrella
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2018

We've Been Around
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2016

This Is Me
Role: Director
TV • 2015

This Is Me
Role: Supervising Producer
TV • 2015

Dear Lou Sullivan
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2014

Transparent
Role: Director
TV • 2014

The Thing
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2012

The Thing
Role: Writer
MOVIE • 2012
She Gone Rogue
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2012
N Train
Role: Writer
MOVIE • 2009
N Train
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2009

Secret Men's Club: Moment # 133
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2009

The Drive North
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2003

Unison
Role: Assistant Camera
MOVIE • TBA