Rudy Valdez

Rudy Valdez is an Emmy Awardwinning Michiganraised New York Citybased filmmaker committed to creating social cultural and political stories through a cinematic and meaningful lens The Sentence HBO shot and directed by Valdez over the course of a decade tells the very personal story of his sisters plight in the criminal justice system while tackling subjects like mandatory minimums and sentencing reform The Sentence won Valdez the 2019 Primetime Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking and the US Documentary Audience Award at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival Valdezs most recent project ReOpening Night is a feature film about The Public Theaters staging of a beloved New York City institution Shakespeare in the Park It premiered on HBO Max in December