Luis Fernandez de la Reguera

Luis Fernandez de la Reguera (October 20, 1966 – August 14, 2006) was an American independent film director most famous for his 2003 documentary Rockets Redglare! about the actor of that name. Luis Fernandez de la Reguera was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He weathered a difficult childhood and left for New York City at age 17. Living in the pre-gentrified Lower East Side, he played guitar in several punk rock bands including his own, "Orgy of One", and was a cover story in CMJ magazine.

Prior to becoming a filmmaker, de la Reguera also performed stand up comedy, and owned the Big Plate recording studio on Ludlow Street.

It was in his interim work as a bartender that he came to know the colorful actor, con artist, East Village personality and heroin addict Rockets Redglare and many of Redglare's wary friends.

In August 2006 while visiting friends in rural Phoenicia in Ulster County, upstate New York, de la Reguera lost control of his motorcycle and crashed. He was airlifted to a hospital in Albany, New York, where he died of severe head trauma a few days later at age 39.