- Born
- Birth nameLaurence Rhoderic Blackhurst IV
- Rod Blackhurst is best known as the Emmy and Critics Choice nominated director and producer of the Netflix Original Documentary Amanda Knox and the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival Audience Award Winning Narrative Film Here Alone.
In the fall of 2022 he directed and produced the action thriller Blood For Dust starring Scoot McNairy, Kit Harington, Josh Lucas, Ethan Suplee and Stephen Dorff. Blood For Dust was produced by Witchcraft Motion Picture Company, the film and television studio Blackhurst runs with partner Noah Lang.
In January of 2023 Atomic Monster and Blumhouse announced the feature film adaptation of Blackhurst's 2014 Vimeo Staff Pick Night Swim, with production slated for March 2023. The feature stars Wyatt Russell and 2023 Oscar Nominee Kerry Condon.
As a genre agnostic filmmaker Blackhurst most recently directed and showran the documentary series John Wayne Gacy: Devil in Disguise for Peacock and directed on NatGeo's Welcome To Earth starring Will Smith.
Blackhurst's work as a commercial director for Airbnb, Delta, SeaDoo, Dodge Ram, Tylenol, Uber Freight has been shortlisted for Cannes Lions and won AdWeek Arc and Webby Awards.
- IMDb mini biography by: Trevor Eiler
- Spent 4 years, 2006-2009, touring North American and Europe with Epic (Sony) recording artists The Fray documenting their rise to fame.
- Graduated from Colgate University in 2002 with a degree in French Literature.
- Was a successful alpine ski racer until 1997.
- His 'Gravity' Oscars 2014 commercial parody was a viral success after being covered by Jezebel and E!Online.
- Directed the 2014 visual rebranding of Airbnb
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