Oden Roberts
Oden Roberts (birth name Oden Few Roberts) is a writer, a director, a cinematographer, and film producer. Born: December 28, 1979. Los Angeles, CA.
Biography
Oden Roberts is an American producer and filmmaker. In 2012, he launched the production company Odd Man Out and currently acts as Chief of North American distribution for Fighting Chance Films with Australian filmmaker and actor, Dustin Clare.
His first film as a producer was Terry Gilliam's "The Legend of Hallowdega". Years later, his short film “Be The One” was bestowed the Cannes Golden Lion Award for directing. In 2017, he was a recipient of the KRF awarded for his film “A Fighting Season” for writing and direction. The film was presented by the San Francisco Film Society and Ted Hope (Amazon's now head of production) as his feature drama debut as writer/director.
On the heals of the success of “A Fighting Season”, he executive produced the international documentary “Antarctica: A Year On Ice”, followed the SXSW debut of “Grindadrap” starring Band of Brother's Ross McCall. In 2019, he executive produced the official Sundance 2020 entry “The Killing of Two Lovers”.
In addition to his feature credits, Roberts' has earned several awards in the fields of cinematography and visual effects including 5 Cannes Lions and the ASC recognition award for craft.
The Independent Film Channel's Film School, a nine part television series, featured Roberts' as one of the filmmakers at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts. He is a regular contributor to the site No Film School.
Personal life
Roberts was romantically connected to Azura Skye for seven years. Roberts and model Ieva Kokoreviča, Miss Universe contestant, made national headlines in Thailand at the Miss Universe pageant.