Rom Barnea

Filmmaker, Co-founder & Creative Director, Pendulum

Rom Barnea is a Tel Aviv-based multidisciplinary cultural entrepreneur, filmmaker, photographer, social activist, actor and curator.

He is the co-founder and Creative Director of Pendulum, a creative agency aimed at social causes. He is also founder of Fish out of Sea – a global refugee photography initiative. Rom graduated from the Sam Spiegel Film & Television School in Jerusalem and the Hasifa School for Video-therapy.

Rom has vast experience in creating impact-driven content. His unique work method consists of working for and with vulnerable communities. He specializes in creating with refugees, people with special needs, youth-at-risk and NGO workers.

His work is directed at creating storyteller ambassadors from within the community, fostering a network of changemakers who are able to tell their own stories in a captivating, thought and emotion stirring manner.

Rom Barnea
“Stories shape how we perceive our world. Inside and out. Having personally experienced what storytelling can do to improve my personal well-being, as well as my communities’; I see no greater honor than to bring the tools I’ve learned to young people that aspire to create positive change in the world.”

— Rom Barnea, Mentor

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Directed by Tymur Tsapliienko (Ukraine) Mentored by Rom Barnea
Tymur Tsapliienko, 17, a Ukrainian refugee, shares his view on the cost of war and the price of the world’s dependence on fossil fuels.

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