Roddy Pérez

Roddy Alfredo Pérez Valerio (October 20, 1982. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic), known professionally as Roddy Pérez is a film and music producer, director, actor and scriptwriter. Is the first dominican in the history selected to the Berlinale Talents of the Berlin Film Festival, Germany, Founder and creator of Videoclip Awards and Dominican Film Market officially the first film market in the history of the Caribbean Region film Industry. Won the Press Award in the Dominican Film Festival New York 2021, also received Audience Award in the Dominican Film Festival 2019, won in 2007 as Iberoamerican Film Producer of The Year in the Morelia Lab of the Morelia International Film Festival (FICM).

In 2019 Roddy Pérez premiered his first feature film Héroes de Junio after ten years of development and investigation, Héroes de Junio is the first dominican belic feature film with the participation of Cheddy García, Javier Grullón, Fausto Rojas, Claudette Lalí, Mario Peguero, Maurizio Alberino and Vlad Sosa, with the support of Programa Ibermedia.

In the music industry as a producer and artist, Roddy Pérez use the nickname of Elefant Universe with three albums produced in his repertoire Dembowtronic, Electrobow and Station Me, the latter with the American Artist Taisha. En el 2021 Roddy Pérez published his first book.