Shari Roman

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Shari Roman is an American film director, writer and artist. After winning a slot at the Sundance Film Festival in 1999 for her first short film, the documentary Lars from 1-10, in which Danish auteur Lars von Trier explains the origin of Dogme '95, Roman went on to direct a series of narrative shorts and documentaries on other filmmakers, including British director Mike Figgis and cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle. Filmmaker Magazine rated her in their "25 New Face of Indie Film" in 1999. For the cover of Filmmaker Magazine in Spring 2002 she wrote The Genius of the System, a profile of multi-media artist Matthew Barney under an National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) grant

Her book on approaches to new cinema, Digital Babylon: Hollywood, Indiewood and Dogme '95 was published in 2001 by Lone Eagle Publishing. Her essay on von Trier, The Man Who Would Be Dogme, was published in the 2003 collection, Lars von Trier : Interviews by the University of Mississippi Press, as part of their Conversations with Filmmakers series.

In November 2006, Roman premiered her art exhibition My Cinefull Life at Stockholm's Allmänna Galleriet 925. The show featured a selection of text and photographic portraits culled from her interviews with independently-minded filmmakers, incl. Darren Aronofsky, Steve Buscemi, Miranda July, Tommy Lee Jones, Neil Young, with images taken by Mike Figgis, Michael Muller and Tim Palen.