BIOGRAPHY

George Eli embarks on a personal quest to understand his Romani (?Gypsy?) heritage in the documentary Searching for the Fourth Nail. He gained his love for filmmaking at an early age watching films with his father. His earliest memory of a "Gypsy" on screen was of Quasimodo and Esmeralda in The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Since then he has been determined to break the "Gypsy" stereotype, and to do so has defied community norms by attending film school at New York Film Academy. He went on to found Eli Films in 2000, a small independent production house committed to bringing stories that matter to life. Eli has worked alongside documentary filmmakers such as Jasmine Dellal and Albert Maysles on the film When the Road Bends.