Ivan Rome
Hailing from Columbus, Georgia, Ivan Rome is a filmmaker whose Southern roots run through everything he creates.
Recently securing his MFA from Columbia University, he is the recipient of Columbia’s inaugural Bobby Kashif Cox Memorial Scholarship, an inaugural Diverso’s Black Writers in Focus Fellow, a Columbia Alumni Association Scholar, and an MTV Joel Schumacher & Sophia Cranshaw Scholar for the 2023 Gotham EDU Film & Media Career Development Program.
He has also worked as an MTV Entertainment Ambassador, a Narrative Programming Fellow for The Gotham Film & Media Institute, and a Narrative Intern at Ryan Coogler’s Proximity Media. Additionally, Rome was selected for the SEEN Black Filmmakers Program sponsored by The Blackhouse Foundation, participated in New York Stage and Film’s 2024 Filmmakers’ Workshop, and is currently developing a new pilot as a part of Mike Gauyo’s Black Boy Writes Mentorship Initiative.
Rome’s work has screened at several Academy Award–qualifying festivals and on American Airlines flights, and explores the complexities of our culture through humour and heart.