Alicia Rodriguez

Alicia Rodriguez is an emerging cinematographer who focuses on documentaries and short-form narratives. Rodriguez is a second-generation Boricua to Nuyorican parents, and their experience with diaspora informs much of their work and approach to storytelling. Outside of filmmaking, much of their storytelling is also influenced by their work with plant cultivation and herbal medicine which they view, like film, as another medium of survival and resistance that is rooted in the reclamation of storytelling.

Rodriguez graduated summa cum laude in 2020 from George Mason University, double majoring in Film and Video Studies and Social Justice and Human Rights. In 2019, Alicia was the only undergraduate awarded the highly competitive and prestigious Princess Grace Scholarship Award for their thesis experimental documentary film  'A Diasporic Boricua'.  Additionally, they were the recipient of the 2018 NATAS Capital Emmy Student Production Award for Short Form – Fiction for the role of Director of Photography on 'Close Call' (dir. Kauri George).

After graduation, Rodriguez was brought in to be the 1st AD on 'Hess' in 2021, which landed in the Cannes International Pan African Film Festival and Toronto Independent Film Festival. Since then, Rodriguez has focused on their work as a documentarian and has currently been working as a cinematographer on their first documentary feature The Young Won't Forget, which has since been awarded the Bend Film Festival BIPOC Women Film Production Grant and is still in production. They continue their work as a freelance cinematographer and documentarian in the DC metro area, NYC, and internationally from Toronto to Copenhagen.