Erin Ramírez (He/They) is an award-winning Chinese-Jamaican and Dominican filmmaker originally from New Hampshire. They use their foundation in classical US film language to reconsider new methods of storytelling, reimagining future, unseen depictions of race, sexuality, and existence outside of historically constraining and/or limiting images.
His work has been recognized by notable arts organizations, festivals and curation teams worldwide, including, Vimeo Staff Picks, the Sundance Institute, the Sharjah Art Foundation, NeXt Doc/Youth FX, Third Horizon, the Moving Image Fund, AFI FEST, SFFILM, Palm Springs, and others.
Currently, he invests his time making mean, tropical cocktails and is in the crux of developing two feature length projects, a documentary about Kowloon, the largest Chinese restaurant in the U.S., and a narrative feature based on his adolescent experience growing up in New England supported by the Sundance Artist Accelerator program.