ROMAN GERODIMOS
ROMAN GERODIMOS
ROMAN GERODIMOS
WRITER - DIRECTOR - PRODUCER
Filmmaking at the edge of the present
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AT THE EDGE OF THE PRESENT (16 mins, 2015)
A CERTAIN TYPE OF FREEDOM (15 mins, 2015)
Two essay films on cities, urban public space, memory and coexistence.
Featuring original visual material from 20 cities
Narrated by Sam Booth
Budget: £4k - New skills: sound editing/mixing on Audacity
Official Selection, 2016 Thin Line Film Fest, Denton, Texas
Screenings in Athens, Boston, Budapest, Pune, Salzburg
Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) 2016 Research in Film Awards
Shortlisted for the 'Utopia Award: Imagining our Future'
European Independent Film Awards 2016
Winner, Gold Award (Best Short Film Script, Roman Gerodimos)
Best Shorts Competition, 2015
Winner, Award of Merit - Special Mention (Experimental)
Winner, Award of Merit - Special Mention (Public Service Programming / PSA)
International Independent Film Awards (IIFA) 2016
Diamond Winner, Narration (Sam Booth)
Gold Winner, Documentary Short (Roman Gerodimos)
Hollywood International Independent Documentary Awards (HIIDA) 2016
Winner, Best Narration (Sam Booth)
ESSENCE (26 mins, 2017)
'Create. Hope. Love.'
A short film about human beings
Based on the essay 'Look to the Guiding Stars!'
by Paul Badura-Skoda
Filmed in seven cities, incl. Athens, Buenos Aires, and Salzburg
Featuring original recordings of Bach, Schubert, Brahms
Starring legendary Greek actress Olga Damani
Narrated by Sam Booth
Budget: $10k, incl. $4k on Indiegogo
New skills: crowdfunding; shooting on a stabilizer;
editing on DaVinci Resolve
Official Selection, 2018 Amsterdam Lift-Off Online Film Festival
Official Selection, 2018 Arts by the Sea Festival, Bournemouth
Award of Merit (Experimental), 2018 Best Shorts Awards
Silver Award (Best Experimental Film), 2018 Independent Shorts Awards
Screenings at the Salzburg Academy on Media & Global Change
and the Katakouzenos House Museum in Athens
DETERRENCE (160 mins, 2020)
A feature-length documentary on European security
and the past, present and future of NATO
Split into 1+7 self-contained episodes/'chapters'
Featuring exclusive access at the 2019 NATO summit in London
and interviews with top diplomats, journalists and experts
Featuring extensively researched archival material
and commissioned maps and motion graphics
Narrated by Sam Booth
Budget: £30k, including funding from NATO
New skills: line producer, production manager, location manager;
investigative documentary-making and interviewing;
sourcing and licensing archival and stock footage
> 13k views, 200k impressions
National media coverage in Greece
Invited screenings and masterclasses at universities and conferences
Official Selection, 2020 Essex DocFest
IndieFEST Humanitarian Award
2020 Award of Excellence
2020 Hollywood Verge Film Awards
Winner, Best Documentary Film
IndieFEST Film Awards
Winner, Award of Excellence
Impact DOCS Awards
Winner, Award of Excellence
WE'LL MEET AGAIN (7 mins, 2021)
A short meditation on cities
A love letter to pre-pandemic London
Budget: £0.5k
New skills: create a film in 48 hours,
from conception to launch
Independent Shorts Awards 2021
Bronze Award, Best Web & New Media
Screening at the 2021 Britain on the Couch symposium
Featured in Athens Voice
Featured in the Museum of Lockdown
FELLOWS HALL (7 mins, 2023)
In 2023, a series of catastrophic events are taking place throughout the planet. An old palace in the outskirts of Salzburg becomes a fugitive space. Six travelers of space and time arrive on a mission to change the course of history.
Inspired by Chris Marker's masterpiece La Jetée (1962)
Created following seven 'rules' or restrictions
Conceived, scripted, filmed, edited in five days
Featuring original recordings of Liszt, Bach
Budget: £1k
New skills: first narrative/fiction short
Depth of Field International Film Festival
Exceptional Merit Award, 2023
A PROBABLE OUTCOME (in development)
From the ghost towns and travelling circuses of the Old West,
to the 1980s AIDS epidemic and beyond...
A meditation on love, loss, destiny, and perseverance,
a story of outcasts and misfits,
inspired by Sting's song 'Shape of my Heart'.
Grounded in historical research, the film's characters and themes cross boundaries of time and culture
With a parallel research and documentation project
on African American women of the Old West
Currently in development
Budget: £50k, including a £10k crowdfunding target
Seed funding provided by Bournemouth University
Funding currently being sought - Exec/Associate/Co Producer roles available
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