José F Rodriguez is a Senior Film Programmer at the Tribeca Festival, overseeing the festival’s Documentary Screening Committee and helping to determine the feature documentaries and fiction features that are pre-screened, shortlisted and invited for the festival. He also leads outreach and programmatic curation for Latine/Latin American features that are submitted to – and considered for - the festival. He was formerly a senior staffer at Tribeca Film Institute, where – for over 10 years - he oversaw the growth, funding & overall strategic vision for all their documentary funds & programs as well as their filmmaker / industry market, TFI NETWORK. Since 2017 he has directed several short films, including the documentary short ADOLESCENCIA and the experimental shorts Mama,mama (2018) and JUNGLA X (2022).