Filmmaker - Editor - Creator
About
Aidan Rhode is a dual citizen US/UK award-winning filmmaker based in Manchester, England.
He is studying Geography at The University of Manchester and is a Content Ambassador for the University.
He currently works as the Manager of The Creativity Conference, Content Director for Drop Dead Generous, and freelance in the Film & TV industry in the sustainability field.
Previous Work Includes:
As an intern for the US Department of Energy in Washington DC (2024)
As a Sustainability Coordinator with Earth Angel Sets on major Apple TV+ and Amazon Prime Video productions in New York City (2023, 2024).
As President of The University of Manchester's Filmmaking Society, Station Manager at Manchester's FuseTV (2023).
As Vice President of TEDxUniversityofManchester and organised a sell-out official TEDx event in November 2022.
With the BFI Film Academy, BBC, Variety, IndieWire, Discovery Plus, the IET, NCS, Off The Fence Productions and Arts Council England.
Attending Cannes, Sundance, and Raindance Film Festivals and assisting running the Cannes Pajama Party (featured in Vogue, The Daily Mail, etc), and was the Videography Coordinator for Manchester Film Festival (2022 & 2023), and the DaVinci International Film Festival (2024) in Los Angeles.
As a regular guest on BBC Radio Derby.
His films have amassed over 750,000 views on YouTube.
He was an original contributing filmmaker to the WWF's 8 Billion environmental video platform and has a passion for telling stories and making films with an environmental focus.
He is also a web designer, having built The Creativity Conference, Future Tech Speakers, and several other organisations' sites from scratch.
He is a certified BAFTA Albert Sustainability Champion, accredited with the Carbon Literacy Project.
He is a Climate Reality Project Climate Leader.
He is a Student Member of the IEMA (Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment).
He is an Adobe Certified Professional at Adobe Premiere Pro.
He is a member of the Royal Television Society.
He was awarded the Herbertson Geography Award by the University of Manchester, in addition to the prestigious Stellify Award.
Won several Awards at the National Student Television Awards 2022 and 2023.