La Casa Films

Rodrigo Bellott has a BFA in Film, Photography and Visual Arts with a minor in Art History from Ithaca College.

His first student film, DESTIERRO, was one of five films around the world nominated for a student Academy Award in 2001, and won several student film festivals. His next few shorts won several short film awards and were selected to over 50 festivals around the world.

While still attending college, Rodrigo wrote and directed DEPENDENCIA SEXUAL (Sexual Dependency), his first feature film. The film was finished in 2003 and had its world premiere at the 2003 Locarno Film Festival. At Locarno, the film won the FIPRESCI award and since then, has received seven other awards on four different continents as well as tremendous critical reception at over 56 festivals. The Los Angeles Times, New York Times and Time Out NY named DEPENDENCIA SEXUAL as one of the 10 best foreign films of 2003.

Rodrigo‘s second feature as director, WHO KILLED THE WHITE LLAMA? debuted in Bolivia in 2006 becoming the highest grossing box office success in Bolivian History. The film was selected to all major Latinamerican film festivals and won several awards including best film in Miami, and Best director in Colombia.

In 2007, he directed the ACHAP GOLD for SIPA, one of the commercial ads he directed in Chile.

Rodrigo also teaches in the New York State School of the Arts since 2003 as well as several institutions and Universities in Bolivia.