Alejandro R.
New Orleans, LA, USA
$500 - $1500
Alejandro de los Rios is an award-winning Cuban-Venezuelan writer and filmmaker based in New Orleans who has worked with the New Orleans Saints & Pelicans, Warner Brothers, MGM, HBO, A&E Networks, Netflix, ESPN, NFL Network and FOX Sports.
Alejandro directed “Distant Mardi Gras” which premiered at the 2020 New Orleans Film Festival. He was the series director of “9 for No. 9,” a 9-part documentary on New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees. He won ‘Best Editing’ & ‘Best Sound Design’ at the 2015 New Orleans 48 Hour Film Fest and was named to the New Orleans Film Festival’s Emerging Voices Program in 2017. He directed and starred in the short film “Jalapeño Andretti,” which premiered at the 2017 Cinema on the Bayou Film Festival.
Raised outside Washington D.C., he studied writing at Ithaca College and then worked as a freelance journalist writing for ESPN the Magazine, VICE, the Associated Press, Deadspin and others.
- News Shooter / Video Journalist
- Documentary DP
- Commercial DP
- Corporate Videographer
- Drone Operator
- Video Editor - Documentary
- Series Producer / Show Runner
- Creative Director
- Video Editor - Commercial