Rodrigo is simply a master of the craft, as well as a true Renaissance man.  A director with a superb storytelling ability, as well as a strongly defined visual character that leaves no detail, large or small, untouched or forsaken. He possesses an unbelievable knowledge of the language of film-making, from the narrative to the technical, yet also holds degrees in Music Composition and Art History. He is also a successfully published writer. 

Winner of multiple awards for his work as a screenwriter “Apartment 143” and as producer for "Grand Piano” starring Elijah Wood and John Cusack. Yet it is his directing work in the feature films "Red Lights", starring Cillian Murphy (2024 Academy Award Winner for “Oppenheimer”), actor legend Robert DeNiro (two-time Academy Award winner), and Sigourney Weaver, and “Down A Dark Hall” starring Uma Thurman and Ana-Sophia Robb, or his latest opus ”Love Gets A Room” (100 % Rotten Tomatoes) starring Clara Ruugard. Who can forget his first directing masterpiece “Buried” starring Ryan Reynolds, that has garnered him worldwide attention and acclaim. As Ann Hornaday writes for The Washington Post in her review of “Buried” and Rodrigo’s work: “...Buried delivers the kind of immediate experience too often missing in movies that are simply pictures of people talking… it represents cinema at its most intensely physical and psychological….Cortés's ingenious visual and sound design are plunged into the protagonist's plight with claustrophobic verisimilitude."