WESLEY RODRIGUEZ / DIRECTOR
Award-winning filmmaker directing cinematic vertical dramas for global mobile audiences.
7 SERIES directed since 2024
10.8M+ views / It Was Always You
Award-winning filmmaker
COMEDY / DRAMA
01 / SELECTED VERTICAL DRAMAS
Small screen. Lasting impact.
Hide-and-Seek with the CEO
DIRECTOR / VERTICAL DRAMA
Dramabox
WORLD premiere at Alza Film Festival NYC 10.18.26 After a one-night stand that her CEO can’t remember, a secretary is ordered to find the woman he was with. The catch: every clue leads back to the one person she can’t afford to expose—herself.
Trailer & behind-the-scenes gallery pending
It Was Always You
DIRECTOR / VERTICAL DRAMA
Dramabox / 10.8M views
Chloe Green divorces her indifferent rich husband, Liam Green, after a three-year contract marriage. But then she discovers she is pregnant and herself the long-lost heiress of the extremely wealthy Miller family with six elder brothers. As Chloe embraces her new life, her suddenly jealous ex-husband starts chasing her, a fake Miller heiress refuses to give up her spotlight and chaos follows at every turn. Love and family have never been so complicated-or so much fun.
Trailer & behind-the-scenes gallery pending
Pretend We’re Perfect
DIRECTOR / VERTICAL DRAMA
Shorts / 900k views
Izzy enlists her best friend Jackson to fake a romance for her father's dying wish, but as secrets surface and old flames return, their act gets dangerously real. Can they keep up the charade, or will buried truths change everything?
Trailer & behind-the-scenes gallery pending
Forbidden Attraction to the Billionaire
DIRECTOR / VERTICAL DRAMA
Shorts / 3.3M views
Riley Bloom takes a high-stakes job as a live-in assistant to a powerful billionaire CEO to save her mother's life, only to spark a dangerous, forbidden romance that traps her in a web of corporate greed and lethal family scheme
Trailer & behind-the-scenes gallery pending
Pregnant by my Brother-in-Law
DIRECTOR / VERTICAL DRAMA
Shorts / 3M views
When a model's fiance betrays her, she falls into the arms of his brother. Can their forbidden love survive the fallout?
Trailer & behind-the-scenes gallery pending
My Neighbor's a Vampire
DIRECTOR / VERTICAL DRAMA
shorts / 620k views
June finds herself in a dangerous game of cat and mouse, where no one is what they seem.
Trailer & behind-the-scenes gallery pending
The Hollywood Secret
DIRECTOR / VERTICAL DRAMA
shorts / 910k views
When a paparazzi photographer agrees to fake a romance with the celebrity she’s been chasing for a career-making story, neither expects their staged relationship to become real.
Trailer & behind-the-scenes gallery pending
02 / THE ART OF THE NEXT EPISODE
Every second earns the next.
Vertical storytelling is its own cinematic language. Frame for the phone. Find the emotional truth. Build momentum that makes the next episode irresistible.
Mobile-first filmmaking / Fast-paced production / Audience retention / Emotional short-form storytelling / Major vertical drama platforms
01 / HOOK
02 / CONFLICT
03 / CLIFFHANGER
04 / PAYOFF
03 / DIRECTOR’S REEL
The feeling comes first.
Behind the frame.
04 / THE FILMMAKER
Wesley Rodriguez.
Wesley Rodriguez is an award-winning director specializing in vertical microdrama and mobile-first storytelling. Since 2024, he has directed 7 vertical drama productions for major mobile streaming platforms, including DramaBox’s Hide and Seek with the CEO, which premieres at the ALZA Film Festival as the festival’s only DramaBox selection. His DramaBox series It Was Always You has surpassed 10.6 million views, while his work across the format has earned recognition through industry festivals and showcases.
With a background spanning narrative film, branded entertainment, and virtual production, Wesley brings a cinematic eye to the fast-paced demands of vertical storytelling—balancing compelling hooks, heightened emotion, visual storytelling, and efficient production to keep audiences watching episode after episode. His work has screened internationally, won awards, and reached millions of viewers online.
He is a director who understands both the language of cinema and the mechanics of the scroll.