Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
Rejon at the Montclair Film Festival in May 2015
Born	Laredo, Texas
Occupation	Film director
Years active	1991-present

Alfonso Gomez-Rejon (sometimes Alfonso Gomez Rejon, Alfonso Gómez-Rejón or Alfonso Gómez Rejón) is an American film and television director. His television program credits include several episodes of Glee and several episodes of American Horror Story. He was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Directing For a Miniseries for American Horror Story: Coven. He is most known for his second feature film Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, for Indian Paintbrush.

In high school, Rejon would "borrow a friend's camera" and "make shorts in lieu of presenting a report in front of the class." He began his professional career as personal assistant to Martin Scorsese, Nora Ephron, Robert De Niro and Alejandro González Iñárritu before transitioning into a second unit director for feature films, and becoming a television and commercial director. Much of his time as a personal assistant was spent on the sets of major motion pictures. Gomez-Rejon then gained extensive experience as a second unit director, including such films as Babel, Julie & Julia and Argo. He cast most of the "unknown parts" in Babel, which earned him a chance to assist Ryan Murphy in finding authentic Balinese personnel for Eat Pray Love.