Rodrigo Vazquez

Rodrigo Vazquez was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1969. He began working in TV in 1998 for BBC World.  As a free-lance producer / director / cameraman he worked extensively for Channel 4’s Unreported World Series, developing its style and content, filming in war zones from Central America to the Middle East. His work has been nominated for Royal Television Society Awards and obtained the prestigious Rory Peck Award for Features in 2003.

In 2005 Rodrigo founded Bethnal Films in order to produce independent feature films and documentaries. He subsequently produced “La Apertura”, a short film, “Looking for the Revolution”, four series for “Witness-Al Jazeera” and “Al Jazeera People & Power”, “Inside Hamas”, nominated for the 2008 Rory Peck Award, “Child Miners”, winner of the Grand Prize at the 2009 Montreal Human Rights Film Festival and set up international co-productions to make films such as “Angels of Rio” and “President Evo”.

From 2005 until today, Bethnal Films produced more than 30 films and TV programs for its long-term clients. Since then it has opened a fiction development unit to produce cutting-edge, independent films as a new way of giving a voice to the voiceless, through great stories that empower and inspire.