
Directing
Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
Born
1972-11-06 (53)
Place of birth
Laredo, Texas, USA
Known for
Directing
Credits
8 titles
Alfonso Gomez-Rejon (sometimes Alfonso Gómez-Rejón; born November 6, 1972, in Laredo, Texas) is an American film and television director. He made his directorial film debut with the slasher film The Town That Dreaded Sundown (2014). He has since directed the coming-of-age film Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015) and the historical drama The Current War (2017). His television program credits include the FOX teen musical series Glee (2010-2012), the FX horror series American Horror Story (2011-2014), and the Amazon Prime limited series Hunters (2020). He received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries or Movie for American Horror Story: Coven. …
Known for
6.7Book superstore magnate Joe Fox and independent book shop owner Kathleen Kelly fall in love in the anonymity of the Internet—both blissfully unaware that he's trying to put her out of business.
You've Got Mail
1998
6.7Electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse compete to create a sustainable system and market it to the American people.
The Current War
2018
7.5Greg is coasting through senior year of high school as anonymously as possible, avoiding social interactions like the plague while secretly making spirited, bizarre films with Earl, his only friend. But both his anonymity and friendship threaten to unravel when his mother forces him to befriend a classmate with leukemia.
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
2015
5.2Russ Richards is a TV weatherman and local celebrity on the verge of losing his shirt. Desperate to escape financial ruin, he schemes with Crystal the TV station's lotto ball girl to rig the state lottery drawing. The numbers come up right, but everything else goes wrong as the plan starts to unravel and the game turns rough.
Lucky Numbers
2000
5.9A masked maniac terrorizes the same small community where a murderer known as the Phantom Killer struck decades earlier.
The Town that Dreaded Sundown
2014
NRA documentary built around Pope Francis’s final in-depth interviews, following Scholas Occurrentes’ cinema initiative as it brings together education, filmmaking, and community building.
Aldeas: A New Story
2026
Film credits
Behind the camera
6.7Electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse compete to create a sustainable system and market it to the American people.
The Current War
2018
7.5Greg is coasting through senior year of high school as anonymously as possible, avoiding social interactions like the plague while secretly making spirited, bizarre films with Earl, his only friend. But both his anonymity and friendship threaten to unravel when his mother forces him to befriend a classmate with leukemia.
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
2015
5.9A masked maniac terrorizes the same small community where a murderer known as the Phantom Killer struck decades earlier.
The Town that Dreaded Sundown
2014
NRA documentary built around Pope Francis’s final in-depth interviews, following Scholas Occurrentes’ cinema initiative as it brings together education, filmmaking, and community building.
Aldeas: A New Story
2026
On November 22, 1963 CBS newsman Walter Cronkite is given the task of reporting on live television about President John F. Kennedy's assassination in Texas.
Newsflash
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7.0A documentary on the making of 21 Grams (2003).
21 Grams: In Fragments
2004
