Director

About

b. 1986, HK.

 
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Representation

Yell Proudctions
Yvette Lang- Einczig
yellprod@aol.com

 

Elia Petridis is an accomplished director, screenwriter, and creative director with over a decade of experience in feature films, music videos, branded content and immersive storytelling. He founded production company Filmatics in 2007 and immersive entertainment agency Fever Content in 2017. The two companies work together as a transmedia network exploring innovative ways to tell stories
across mediums. Elia brings a strong narrative and artistic focus to his work, utilizing music, storytelling and emerging technology to create highly engaging transmedia experiences for immersive and traditional platforms. 

Recently Elia served as the creative director of an immersive entertainment campaign centered around the single Popstar for the duo Intellexual on Fantasy Records.  The campaign included an immersive 360 music video which Petridis directed, as well as AR filters on Snapchat and Instagram, a Spotify Canvas video, a social media campaign, and BTS materials all working in support of building awareness, retention, and brand marketing for the album release.  

Beyond interactive, Elia is best known for writing and directing The Man Who Shook the Hand of Vicente Fernandez, starring Academy Award winner Ernest Borgnine in his final on-screen performance and Academy nominee June Squibb. He has also directed numerous music videos for major labels including Sub Pop, Def Jam, Sony Music and more. Elia has a Masters from the USC School of Cinematic Arts.