Rodrigo Dorfman is North Carolina-based award-winning writer, filmmaker and multimedia producer who has worked with POV, HBO, Salma Hayek’s Ventanazul and the BBC among others. His films have been screened at some of the top international film festivals in the world (Toronto, Full Frame, Edinburgh, Telluride, Human Rights Watch). With his father, he won best screenplay award from the Writer’s Guild of Great Britain for Prisoners in Time (1997), starring Joh Hurt. His short One Night in Kernersville won the Jury Award for best short at Full Frame (2011). His work has been exhibited at the Levine Museum of the New South, at the Atlanta History Center, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, the MAK in Los Angeles and SECCA in Winston Salem. He is a cinematographer of the Sundance award-winning documentary Always in Season, about the impact of lynching on four different communities; his documentary This Taco Truck Kills Fascists won the Best Louisiana Feature Award at the New Orleans Film Festival, and his feature FIESTA! Quinceañera on the intersection of quinceañeras and immigrant traditions in the South broadcast on PBS stations nationwide in 2018. He is currently in production, with his collaborator, Peter Eversoll, on Bulls and Saints, a feature documentary on reverse migration and bull riding for Latino Public Broadcasting. His feature documentary, Quaranteened, will be broadcast on PBS stations in the spring of 2022 and streamed on the Amazon Prime PBS Documentary Chanel. His memoir Generation Exile will be published by Arte Publico Press in March 2023.

Peter Eversoll is a photographer, documentary filmmaker, visual artist, and educator whose work is focused on collaborative community processes. In 1994, he went to Mexico City where he got an MFA in painting from La Academia de San Carlos, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and from 1998 to 2004 he earned his chops as a dairy farmer in Oaxaca. After living in Mexico for 14 years, he moved to North Carolina where he worked with farmworkers through the NC Migrant Education Program as an education advocate. He is a co-founder of the farmworker advocacy non-profit NC FIELD (www.ncfield.org) and has worked extensively with the farmworker community as a documentary photographer and activist. During this time, he collaborated on workers’ rights campaigns with Human Rights Watch, Wake Forest University, the Farmworker Advocacy Network, among others. As an educator, he taught painting and contemporary art at the Universidad Autónoma Estatal de Hidalgo in Mexico, and photography at the Living Arts College in Raleigh, NC. He has taught community photography workshops in places like rural North Carolina, Ethiopia, Istanbul, and Mexico. In 2008, he was Visiting Artist at FARO de Oriente in Mexico City, Artist in Residence at Golden Belt Studios in Durham, NC in 2009, Alternate ROOTS Visual Arts Scholar in 2014, and Artist in Residence with ActivARTE in Tijuana, Mexico in 2017. He shared a South East Regional Emmy award as photographer of the documentary Harvest of Dignity in 2012. He produced and co-created his first documentary film, ¡FIESTA!, Quinceañera, in collaboration with director, Rodrigo Dorfman, which premiered on PBS in 2019. He is a member of the AztlanPhoto agency, and has exhibited and published his work throughout the USA and Latin America. He currently lives in Mexico City.