Haroula Rose Spyropoulos is a filmmaker and performer from Chicago, now residing in Los Angeles as well. She 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 was released in theaters nationwide with Freestyle and AMC. It was praised by the likes of NPR, The Guardian, Ebert.com, Movie Madness and the Chicago Tribune for its “easygoing naturalism” and Richard Roeper of the Sun-Times saying, “they all slip comfortably into their roles, they all get their moments to shine, and my biggest complaint about ALL HAPPY FAMILIES is that it leaves us wanting more. There’s so much more we’d like to discover about this unhappy family.”  

Her debut feature as writer/director ONCE UPON A RIVER, an adaptation of 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.

Haroula was 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. Her nonfiction video installation work with the Gun Violence Memorial Project is on display at the National Building Museum after traveling to many cities in the country.

Rose’s work has been supported by a Fulbright Fellowship in Madrid, Almanack Arts, WarnerMedia, Warner Brothers Directing Workshop, Sundance and Tribeca Film Institutes. 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 Ryan Coogler’s FRUITVALE STATION, David Sington’s 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. Her latest collaboration is a group of compositions with Oliver Hill, released on Ba Da Bing Records in early 2025.