Fernando Rocha is a Mexican-American Cinematographer based out of Queens, NY, whose work spans both scripted and unscripted genres. He is a 2023 PBS Ignite X Creative Voices Fellow, a 2022 Sundance X Adobe Ignite Fellow, a 2022 Southern Exposure Film Fellow and a 2021 Fulbright Scholar.

Fernando’s visual approach merges the organic and intimate nature of documentary filmmaking with the attention to detail of the narrative field in order to create a visual language that is right for each story. He graduated from American University in Washington, D.C. and was a member of the school’s Frederick Douglass Distinguished Scholars program. He also supplemented his studies at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts as well as the FAMU Conservatory in Prague.

In addition to his work as a Cinematographer, Fernando spent over 12 years performing Mexican Folkloric dance throughout the DMV region.