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Writer and editor, professor for religious studies
Country of origin
USA

SB Rodríguez-Plate (b. 1966) is an author, speaker, editor and university lecturer whose books include: A History of Religion in 5½ Objects, Blasphemy: Art that Offends and Religion and Film: Cinema and the Re-Creation of the World. His essays have been published in Newsweek, Slate, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Christian Century, The Islamic Monthly, and the Huffington Post, among others. He is a board member of the Interfaith Coalition of Greater Utica, NY, executive director of the Association for Religion and Intellectual Life, and editor of Cross-Currents magazine. He is an adjunct professor at Hamilton College, NY. Member of the INTERFILM Board since 2022.

Articles

S. Brent Rodriguez Plate, President of the Ecumenicval Jury in Locarno 2021, reflects on the festival experience and comments on films which were discussed in the jury extensively.
Being on the jury for a film festival, and allowing oneself to be transported into films, means risking a potentially radical disorientation. Jury member S. Brent Rodriguez-Plate reports about the Berlinale 2017.

Festivals

Current issues

Mythical figures and images from the worlds of culture, sport and politics formed the subject matter of some of the films screened at DocFest Sheffield 2026. Peter Paul Huth explores them.
The extent to which the documentary film has evolved was once again evident this year at DocFest Sheffield (10–15 June 2026). The classic ideal of Direct Cinema or Cinéma Vérité has given way to a wide variety of cinematic possibilities. Report by Peter Paul Huth.

Events

16.02.2025
Haus der EKD, Charlottenstraße 53/54, 10117 Berlin

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