Guillermo R. Rodríguez is a narrative filmmaker and film scholar from San Juan, Puerto Rico. His directorial debut The Shadows premiered at Los Angeles’s Outfest LGBTQ Film Festival in their Dramatic Competition and is currently available on Amazon Prime. He co-wrote a second feature film entitled The Glad Game, a thriller optioned by Mandalay Pictures with Guillermo attached as director, a budget of 4 million, and Alan Cumming and Julianne Nicholson cast as its lead actors. He is also the producer of the indie coming of age feature Sweet Thing, which debuted at the Seattle International Film Festival, and the horror short Totem Goat, which premiered at the Cannes Short Film Festival. In addition to writing, directing, and producing, Guillermo has edited four feature films, a documentary series for The History Channel and promos for CBS, NBC and DirecTV.
Prior to arriving at CSUN, Guillermo was Assistant Professor of Narrative Filmmaking at Santa Clara University where he created a course on Film Adaptation in collaboration with Emmy-winning actor/writer/director/producer Mark Duplass. He is the author of the book Spanish Meta-Art and Contemporary Cinema: Mirrors to the Unconscious (Bloomsbury, 2023), and his academic work has been published in Studies in European Cinema, Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America and the Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies. He is currently writing and developing a queer Latinx horror feature film titled Mala Coda.
