Fernando Rocha is a Mexican-American Cinematographer based out of the U.S. East Coast whose work spans both scripted and unscripted genres. He is a 2023 PBS Ignite X Diverse 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 has also supplemented his studies at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts in Los Angeles as well as the FAMU Conservatory in Prague, Czech Republic.