Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
- Producer
- Director
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Alfonso was born and raised in Laredo, Texas on the US/Mexico border.
He received his BFA from NYU and his MFA from AFI. He began his career
as personal assistant to Martin Scorsese, Nora Ephron, Robert De Niro
and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. He has gone on to direct second unit
for Ms. Ephron, Inarritu, Scorsese, Kevin Macdonald, Ryan Murphy and
Ben Affleck (on the Academy Award-winning "Argo"). He has directed
acclaimed episodes of Glee and American Horror Story, as well as
numerous national commercials for the likes of T-Mobile and Chevrolet
(Super Bowl). He was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Directing For
a Miniseries for "American Horror Story: Coven," as well as for
Outstanding Miniseries as the show's Co-Executive Producer. He also directed
the pilot for Fox's "Red Band Society" which was picked up for series.
He just finished work on his second feature, Me & Earl & the Dying Girl for Indian Paintbrush, which won both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award in the US Dramatic Competition at Sundance Film Festival 2015.
