Romain Gavras

Romain Gavras (born 4 July 1981 in Athens, Greece) is a Greek French director, best known overseas for directing M.I.A.'s controversial video for "Born Free". His films and music videos often portray a gritty and realistic setting juxtaposed with flashy high energy content. He won two VMAs in 2012 for Best Cinematography and Best Direction, both for the "Bad Girls" video he directed for M.I.A.

Biography

He is the son of Constantinos Gavras (Costa-Gavras) and co-founder in 1994 of the collective Kourtrajmé with Kim Chapiron, the son of Kiki Picasso.

Filmography

• Our Day Will Come (2010)
• A Cross the Universe (with So Me and Justice) (2008)
• Traitement de substitution n°4 (2002)
• La barbichette (2002)
• Petit Ben (2000)

Videography

• "No Church in the Wild", Kanye West & Jay-Z (2012)
• "Bad Girls", M.I.A. (2012)
• "Adidas Is All In" Commercial - "Civilization", Justice (2011)
• "Born Free", M.I.A. (2010)
• "The Age of the Understatement", The Last Shadow Puppets (2008)
• "Stress", Justice (2008)
• "I Believe", Simian Mobile Disco (2008)
• "Changer le monde", Rocé (2008)
• "Signatune", DJ Mehdi (2007)
• "Les Mathématiques de Roi Heenok" (2007)
• "Pour ceux", Mafia K1 Fry (2004)

External links

• Romain Gavras at the Internet Movie Database
• Ioncinema.com TIFF 2010 Viral: Romain Gavras' Our Day Will Come - Notre jour viendra
• Interview/Report with Romain Gavras about his film "Notre Jour Viendra"
• Romain Gavras's videos on Vimeo
• Romain Gavra's videos on Fubiz