Clenet Verdi-Rose

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Clenét Verdi-Rose (born February 26, 1982) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter best known for directing feature films Skyler (2012) and Sand Castles(2014).

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Early life

Verdi-Rose was born and raised in Falmouth, Massachusetts. His passion for filmmaking began at an early age. He graduated from Wheaton College Norton, Ma. in 2004 as an Arts Honor Student who also studied filmmaking abroad at the Lorenzo de' Medici School in Florence, Italy.

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Career

Verdi-Rose directed and co-produced True Guts, the award winning documentary film on Crohn's disease recognized with a Freddie Award at the International Health & Medical Media Awards in 2007. Establishing himself as an Assistant Director working on films such as: Meet Bill (2007), Green Street Hooligans 2 (2009) and Little Birds (2012); he was accepted to the Director's Guild of America (DGA). In 2011, Verdi-Rose co-founded the production company, Green Rose Pictures and directed its first feature film, Skyler in 2012. His filmwork was recognized with several awards and nominations in film festivals: Best Feature Film in the Los Angeles Arthouse Film Festival, Silver Award for Feature Film in the California Film Awards, Award of Merit in the Los Angeles Cinema Festival of Hollywood and nominted for Best Picture and HRIFF Award in the Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival Verdi-Rose directed the film Sand Castles which premiered in Los Angeles in June 2014 during Dances With Films at the TCL Chinese Theatre. It earned him nominations for Best Director at the Julien Dubuque International Film Festival 2014 and the New York Visionfest. Sand Castles' film won Best Feature Film awards at Gasparilla International Film Festival, Grand Rapids Film Festival, Myrtle Beach International Film Festival, Rainer Independent Film Festival, and Best Feature and Audience Award at the River Bend Film Festival and the Award of Merit at Catalina Film Festival in 2014. It was also nominated for Grand Jury Best Film and won Best Ensemble Cast at the Milano International Film Festival 2014. Director Verdi-Rose and cinematographer, Chris Faulisi were praised for Sand Castles film for "lingering in the mind a few bravura visuals", and Critic David Appleford of Valley Screen and Stage wrote, "the director, Clenét Verdi-Rose, has delivered a feature that needs to venture further than the confines of the festival circuit." Verdi-Rose was listed in list of Hollywood's Hottest Young Directors with Jeff McNichols and Gia Coppola.

In 2015, Clenét Verdi-Rose was nominated for a James Beard Award for Excellence in Visual and Technical Excellence as a Producer of the Tastemade show, "The Grill-Iron" Web series Tastemade food show. It was later picked up by the Cooking Channel.

Producing the "Heritage" a Tastemade series that highlights chefs across America for their culinary specialties and cultural aspects, Verdi-Rose was awarded the Webby People's Choice Award for Documentary in 2016.

Clenét Verdi-Rose was awarded the Best Directing (Non-fiction) Winner by the IAWTV International Academy of Web Television, Inc. on October 4, 2017 at the Skirball Center, Los Angleles for the "Kitchen Little" Tastemade show. "Kitchen Little" is a Tastemade series that has kids watch a how-to recipe video and then instruct a professional chef in creating the foods with a comedic tone. Variety recommended it on its list to see on Facebook Watch.