Matías Muñoz-Rodriguez

Matias M.R. is a filmmaker from Chile. After completing film school in Chile in 2007, Matias M.R. earned Chilean Government Grants for four consecutive years as Writer/Director/Producer working on feature films, short films, documentaries, music videos, and commercials. Matias M.R. relocated to Los Angeles in 2012, hungry for creative challenges. In 2016, Matias M.R. Directed the short-documentary "Estampas de la Raza" which aired on KCET and was considered for an EMMY nomination. That same year Matias M.R. became a film mentor at the Latino Film Institute Youth Cinema Project, a non-profit founded by actor Edward James Olmos, where he learns from and is empowered by his middle-school and high-school students. It is from their experience that he was inspired to create We Were Kids. Matias M.R. is concurrently developing an episodic series, which was a finalist at Sundance Episodic Lab 2018, based on his personal experience marrying an American and relocating to the United States to build a family.