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The Ramones, photo by Rex Miller

--Director/Cinematographer Rex Miller is a visual storyteller. He has been part of 2 Peabody-Award-Winning projects (as Cinematographer), several Emmys and twice nominated for an Emmy for Cinematography. 

Film/TV credits include: HBO, Netflix, American Masters/PBS, American Experience, Starz, ESPN, Hulu, Apple TV, and at Sundance, Tribeca, Telluride, Venice, New York Film Festival, London Film festival, SXSW, DOCNYC, etc. 

He recently completed directing the feature doc, Harley Flanagan: Wired for Chaos, which just had a world premiere (11/14/24) at DOCNYC.

He directed (with Sam Pollard) the film “Citizen Ashe”, (CNN Films/HBO MAX), which premiered at Telluride (2021) and won Best Documentary at both the 2022 Critics Choice and Grierson Awards and was nominated for a Sports Emmy for Best Feature Doc. 

Miller is DP on the upcoming Giants of the Nile, a feature doc on the South Sudan Olympic Basketball team.

Miller is DP on the 2023 feature doc, Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy, recently Shortlisted for the 2024 Academy Awards for Best Documentary Feature (Director: Nancy Buirski).

Miller was DP on 5 of Buirski’s 6 films.

“Poignantly, the late Nancy Buirski’s documentary Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy made the feature shortlist. She died unexpectedly in August at the age of 78. Deadline spoke with her in June for an extensive piece about the film, which examines the legacy of Midnight Cowboy, the Oscar-winning classic 1969 film that starred Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman.” -Deadline

Citizen Ashe: reviews:

Citizen Ashe NYT Review

THE MOVEABLE FEST – December 2, 2021 – “Rex Miller on Celebrating the Transcendence of Arthur Ashe in “Citizen Ashe””

In 1997 Miller completed "All The Blues Gone", a hardcover book/CD package documenting Mississippi blues culture. "All The Blues Gone" has been widely exhibited in the U.S. and overseas. 

His work has appeared on HBO, Netflix, Apple TV, Hulu, ESPN, PBS National, Tennis Channel, Starz, and screened at major national and international film festivals, including Sundance, Venice, Telluride, Tribeca, Berlin, NY Film Festival, Full Frame and South Africa. He has been part of 2 Peabody-Award-Winning projects, several Emmy winners and was twice nominated for an Emmy for Cinematography.