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
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Screenings in Athens, Boston, Budapest, Pune, Salzburg
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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)
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Hollywood International Independent Documentary Awards (HIIDA) 2016
Winner, Best Narration (Sam Booth)
ESSENCE (26 mins, 2017)
'Create. Hope. Love.'
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A short film about human beings
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Based on the essay 'Look to the Guiding Stars!'
by Paul Badura-Skoda
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Filmed in seven cities, incl. Athens, Buenos Aires, and Salzburg
Featuring original recordings of Bach, Schubert, Brahms
Starring legendary Greek actress Olga Damani
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Narrated by Sam Booth
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Budget: $10k, incl. $4k on Indiegogo
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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
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Silver Award (Best Experimental Film), 2018 Independent Shorts Awards
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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
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National media coverage in Greece
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Invited screenings and masterclasses at universities and conferences​
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Official Selection, 2020 Essex DocFest
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​IndieFEST Humanitarian Award​
2020 Award of Excellence
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2020 Hollywood Verge Film Awards
Winner, Best Documentary Film
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IndieFEST Film Awards
Winner, Award of Excellence
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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
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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
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Screening at the 2021 Britain on the Couch symposium
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Featured in Athens Voice
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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.
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Inspired by Chris Marker's masterpiece La Jetée (1962)
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Created following seven 'rules' or restrictions
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Conceived, scripted, filmed, edited in five days
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Featuring original recordings of Liszt, Bach
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Budget: £1k
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New skills: first narrative/fiction short
Depth of Field International Film Festival
Exceptional Merit Award, 2023
STEPPED IN BLOOD (57 mins, 2025)
Poster designed by John Karahalios
A practice-based research project, a teaching/learning resource and a reflexive documentary on shame and violence in Macbeth, Shakespeare and Freud, psychoanalysis and theatre, and the value of open, playful, interdisciplinary spaces
A visualised conversation and collaborative project between Bournemouth University, the Freud Museum London and The Faction ensemble
English and Greek subtitles available
Filmed at Wilton's Music Hall and the Freud Museum in London, with additional filming in Vienna, Berlin, Scotland and at the Katakouzenos House Museum in Athens
Featuring stills and video from the Faction's 2022/23 production of Macbeth: Partners of Greatness (dir: Mark Leipacher), along with excerpts from the original text​
Divided into 16 short thematic chapters
Budget: £5k
New skills: editing and visualising a pre-recorded conversation, translating psychosocial workshops and abstract concepts into visual narratives.
We are offering Stepped in Blood as a non-profit, publicly available, research and educational resource that is free to watch and share.
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If you would like to arrange a screening and Q&A/conversation with Roman at your university, school, museum, library, festival or community space, please get in touch.
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If you would like to hire the team for a psychosocial or theatrical workshop, please let us know.
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If you would like to make a small donation so as to cover some of the production expenses, we'd be deeply grateful.
PRESENCE (2026)
Three narrators struggle to feel present in a hyper-connected world. They soon realise that presence is related to deeper existential issues: trauma, grief, loss of hope and faith in a changing world.
As their voices, stories and on-screen incarnations cross paths, their healing journey takes them to a magical place in the desert.
Roman's most personal and most ambitious project to date
A feature-length creative non-fiction / autofiction film stretching the boundaries of genres, non-linear narratives, warped timelines
A meditation on the most universal issue of our times
Filming locations include the deserts and highways of Nevada, plus Athens, London, Salzburg, Hiroshima, Mauthausen, Ha Long Bay
Scripting, pre-production and initial filming in 2024-2025
Main filming in 2025
Post-production and release in 2026
Budget: £50k, including a £10k goal from crowdfunding
Seed funding provided by Bournemouth University
Currently recruiting collaborators - camera/sound crew, production/costume designers, music supervisor, location manager, assistants
Producer/Co-Producer/Associate/Exec roles available - if you would like to get involved please get in touch
PERICLES (2026)
The second installment in the DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES ON A TEXT series, Shakespeare's Pericles: A Psychosocial Journey (working title) follows from Stepped in Blood (2025).
The team reunites for a series of psychosocial theatrical workshops and events to dissect and reinterpret Shakespeare's Pericles: Prince of Tyre - a manual of reconciliation in fractured times - as the Faction develop this multinational, multilingual production.
A PROBABLE OUTCOME (2027)
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
Seed funding provided by Bournemouth University
Funding currently being sought - Exec/Associate/Co Producer roles available
Please get in touch
