ABOUT

Jerome Thelia is a filmmaker and colorist with 25 years of experience across animation, visual effects, editing, post-production supervision, directing, and producing. He has collaborated with directors including Dario Argento, Prince, Steven Soderbergh, Richard Mosse, Shawn Christensen, Terrence Malick, and Ben Stiller.

As a colorist, he has finished over twenty features and numerous shorts, including the Academy Award–winning Curfew (2013), Fernando Nation (ESPN 30 for 30), Frank Serpico (IFC Films), and The Vanishing of Sidney Hall (A24). His work also includes multi-award-winning video installations with artists Richard Mosse and Trevor Tweeten, including The Enclave, Incoming, and Broken Spectre, as well as restorations for the Criterion Collection such as Stagecoach, Two or Three Things I Know About Her, and Lonesome. He has contributed visual effects color work to Terrence Malick’s A Hidden Life.

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A two-decade collaboration with National Geographic photographer and cinematographer David McLain, and anthropologist, author, and producer John Fox, culminated in the award-winning feature documentary Bounce: How the Ball Taught the World to Play, now available on Apple and Amazon.

Jerome has also produced several short documentaries for the United Nations addressing conflict-related sexual violence.

Jerome lives and works in Brooklyn, NY with his partner, his son Sasha, and two cats. He has taught at Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema since 2018.

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