Rhys Ernst is a filmmaker and an artist based in Los Angeles.

His debut feature film ADAM, produced by James Schamus and starring Emmy and Golden Globe-nominee Margaret Qualley, premiered as an official selection of the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, won awards at Outfest, Oslo Fusion, and the Mezipatra Film Festival, and was nominated for a 2020 GLAAD award.

He was a Producer and Director on Amazon’s Transparent and created the title sequence for the series. He was nominated for a 2015 Emmy Award for directing and producing Amazon’s webseries This Is Me. As a commercial director, he is repped by Radical Media and his clients have included Google and Facebook.

Ernst has shown work at the Whitney Biennial, the Sundance Film Festival, Oberhausen, the Ann Arbor Film Festival, The Walker and The Hammer Museums; he has won two Special Recognition GLAAD Awards as well as awards at Outfest, Chicago International Film Festival, the L.A. and the Seattle Transgender Film Festivals, and he is on the Board of Directors of Film Independent.

He received a BA from Hampshire College and an MFA from CalArts.