About

Elia Petridis is an accomplished director, screenwriter, and creative director with over 2 decades of experience in feature films, music videos, branded content and immersive storytelling.

He brings a strong narrative and artistic focus to his work, utilizing music, storytelling and emerging technology to create engaging experiences for immersive storyworlds and traditional platforms.

Highlights in Elia’s career include writing and directing The Man Who Shook the Hand of Vicente Fernández, starring Academy Award winner Ernest Borgnine in his final on-screen performance, Academy nominee June Squibb and Emmy nominee Dale Dickey. He has also directed music videos for major labels including Sub Pop, Def Jam, Sony Music and 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.

In 2007 Elia launched his production company Filmatics while graduating from the USC School Of Cinematic Arts followed by digital marketing agency Fever Content in 2017. The two companies work together as a network exploring innovative ways to tell stories across mediums.

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