Haroula Rose Spyropoulos is a filmmaker and musician from Chicago, now residing in Los Angeles. She just recently completed ALL HAPPY FAMILIES, her sophomore feature film as writer, director and producer. It is Executive Produced by Michael Shannon and stars Josh Radnor, Becky Ann Baker, Chandra Russell, Rob Huebel, John Ashton, David Pasquesi, and Colleen Camp. It had its international premiere in Galway, and is being released theatrically in late 2024 with Freestyle and AMC.

Her debut feature as writer/director ONCE UPON A RIVER, based on the best selling novel, was “One of the Most Anticipated Films” in TIME Magazine and FILMMAKER, winning 19 awards at over 40 festivals worldwide including Best Director at the Bend Film Festival, Red Nation, the Alice Guy Blaché Emerging Female Filmmaker Award at Oxford, the Stubbornly Independent Award at Tallgrass, and only the second American film ever to win the Efebo d’Oro in Palermo, Italy.

Rose was recently selected to be part of Hello Sunshine’s short film series, for which she wrote and directed a rom com fable called HOUND OF LOVE. Other acclaimed short films and videos include AS THEY SLEPT, LOST & FOUND, WEDDING DRESS, NO LOVE SONG, and BABY CRAZY, which have premiered with NOWNESS, NYLON, Vimeo Staff Picks, Short of the Week, and have screened with the Flux Series at the Hammer Museum, The Future of Film is Female at the Nitehawk and many other festivals and screening series.

Rose’s work has been supported by a Fulbright Fellowship in Madrid, Almanack Arts, WarnerMedia, Warner Brothers Directing Workshop, and Tribeca Film Institute. She has mentored at Sundance Film Forward, the Femme program at Utah Valley University, and has led workshops and speaking engagements through various festivals and communities. She has been an adjunct professor at DePaul University’s School of Cinematic Arts. Rose received her BA and MA from the University of Chicago, and attended USC's MFA program. As a producer she has worked on FRUITVALE STATION, THE FEAR OF THIRTEEN, HEAVEN ADORES YOU, PERMANENT and SAINT FRANCES.

Rose’s songs can be heard in many TV series, films and commercials. She’s released three full-length LP’s as well as remixes, singles and EP’s with Thirty Tigers and Tone Tree Music. She has toured internationally, including many cities in China, and has a new LP to be released in 2024 along with a collaborative instrumental project in early 2025.