Filmmaker - Editor - Creator

About

Aidan Rhode is an award-winning filmmaker based in Manchester, England, and East Coast USA, as a dual-citizen.

He currently works as the Manager of The Creativity Conference and as an intern for the US Department of Energy. 

He was President of The University of Manchester's Filmmaking Society, Station Manager at Manchester's FuseTV and won several Awards at the National Student Television Awards 2022 and 2023. 

He was Vice President of TEDxUniversityofManchester and organised a sell-out official TEDx event in November 2022.

He is studying Geography at The University of Manchester and is a Content Ambassador for the University. 

He has worked with the BFI Film Academy, BBC, Variety, IndieWire, Discovery Plus, the IET,  NCS, Off The Fence Productions and Arts Council England.

He worked with Earth Angel Sets in New York City as an sustainability production assistant.

He has attended Cannes, Sundance, and Raindance Film Festivals and assists running the Cannes Pajama Party (featured in Vogue, The Daily Mail, etc), and was the Videography Coordinator for Manchester Film Festival 2022 and 2023, and the DaVinci International Film Festival in 2024.

He is an Adobe Certified Professional at Adobe Premiere Pro.

He is a member of the Royal Television Society. 

His films have amassed over 750,000 views on YouTube.

He is a regular guest on BBC Radio Derby.

He was awarded the Herbertson Geography Award by Manchester University. 

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.