Filmmaker Rodolfo Rivera, born in Puerto Rico, has been a strong, driven, and self-motivated leader since childhood. His first award came at the age of 17 from the county of San Juan for being one of its most promising young leaders. Rivera’s passion for what is real and true created in him the need to tell a visual story.

He started his formal career as a photojournalist during the Iraq War, capturing unique moments with his award winning photos.Ex combat photographer with a wide range of on-location experience, his work has taken him from the Caribbean to the Middle East and back to many places through the United States. During the last Presidential Elections, he did photographic coverage of the primaries in Nevada. Rivera’s filming career started in with work for the prestigious temple Hua Zang Si in San Francisco and other documentaries like Narconon.