Director | Mexico/Canada

Rodrigo Perez-Castro is a Mexican-Canadian Annie Award-nominated animation filmmaker with decades of experience in the industry. He has worked as a Story Artist, in both Canada and the U.S. on numerous projects for studios like Disney, Bluesky, Fox Animation, Paramount Animation, and Dreamworks TV.

Some of Rodrigo’s credits as a story artist include- The Book of Life, Ice Age:Collision Course, Ferdinand, and Rio 2. For his work on Rio 2 he was nominated for an Annie Award in the category of “Outstanding Achievement for Storyboarding in Animated Feature Film”.

He has also served as the Head of Story for Ice Age: The Great Eggscapade and the How to Train your Dragon TV series, as well as a story consultant for the original Angry Birds film.

Rodrigo's directorial debut was Koati, a Mexico-US independent hand-drawn animated film released in 2021 voiced and executive produced by Sofia Vergara with music by Grammy award-winner star Marc Anthony.

Rodrigo also served for 4 years as the VP of Creative at House of Cool providing creative leadership at the studio helping shapes numerous projects for many clients including Apple TV and Netflix Animation. Most recently he directed Night of the Zoopocalypse along with co-director Ricardo Curtis the film is slated to be released in early 2025.

Rodrigo is currently developing his own animated film properties with a unique personal storytelling touch.