Jamie Holt Aguilar-Rodríguez

About Me

education

MFA Film & TV Production, Directing & Producing

University of Southern California, School of Cinematic Arts

BA Screenwriting, Summa Cum Laude

University of North Carolina at Greensboro, School of media studies

Disciplinary Honors Degree, Media Studies

University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Study Abroad: National Cinemas of Post-Colonial Developing Nations

Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia

Awards

Alumna of the Year & Commencement Speaker, 2017

University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Department of Media Studies

Representation

Allen Fischer, Artists First

Jamie Holt Aguilar-Rodríguez is an L.A.-based director, writer, producer, and designer originally from Charlotte, North Carolina.

She recently helmed the award-winning web series The Filth, directing and executive producing all five half-hour episodes. After premiering at Toronto’s Inside Out Film Festival and San Francisco’s Frameline Film Festival, The Filth is now streaming on the global LGBTQ+ platform, Revry.

Jamie got her first taste of directing in the third grade when she adapted the Polish folktale “Prot and Krot” into a one-woman show for the school assembly...which may have gone a bit over her young audience’s heads. Since then, she has worked on projects from Los Angeles to New York to London, including associate producing the film Miss You Already, starring Drew Barrymore and Toni Collette.

Before she found her passion behind the camera, Jamie’s first love was theater. As an acting major at UNC Greensboro, she studied Meisner, Stanislavski, and Uta Hagen's acting techniques, as well as theatrical set design. Jamie graduated Summa Cum Laude with a BA in screenwriting and an honors degree in media studies. While there, she also mounted two indie plays and spent a semester abroad in Melbourne, Australia, studying Maori and Aboriginal film. In 2017, Jamie was honored to give the commencement speech at the UNCG Media Studies graduation ceremony, where she was named Alumnus of the Year.

After UNCG, Jamie earned her MFA in directing and producing for film and television from the USC School of Cinematic Arts. She soon cut her teeth working for two influential directors: Catherine Hardwicke (Thirteen, Twilight) and Justin Simien (Dear White People). In this latter role, she was the season two assistant to the showrunner on Netflix’s Dear White People and helped develop Simien’s Sundance premiering film, Bad Hair.

Jamie has written and directed five short films and four music videos with 6 Million+ combined views. She has also worked for MTV, produced and directed web content for ABC Digital and Snapchat, and produced music videos for The All-American Rejects and Lady Gaga’s Emmy-winning, Grammy- and Oscar-nominated song, “Til It Happens to You.”

Most recently, Jamie produced the short film ¡Yo Soy Sally, La Loca!, which premiered at the Academy Awards qualifying festival, La Shorts. It was also selected as one of seven featured shorts at the 2022 NALIP Media Summit and is scheduled to screen at several more upcoming festivals around the world.

Currently, Jamie is developing new content with her writing partner, Harvey Guillén (What We Do in the Shadows, Reacher, Zoe’s Extraordinary Playlist). They’ve worked with partners that include Warner Brothers TV and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Sabrina, Riverdale), and they are now collaborating with Mitú Studios on an upcoming project. Their radio play, Father’s Office, made its Halloween debut on the award-winning podcast, It Listens from the Radio.

Jamie also recently completed an adjunct professorship at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts. Fight on!