Roee Messinger

Roee Messinger is a director, writer, producer and film editor. Roee received his MFA in Digital Media Production from The City College of New York under the sponsorship of the prestigious Fulbright Fellowship for international students. His thesis film Drifting won the program’s best narrative and technical achievement awards. Roee established Platonic Films to produce his first feature. American Trial: The Eric Garner Story, his directorial debut, was selected to The Gotham’s 2018 project forum as a work-in-progress and later premiered at the 2019 New York Film Festival to rave reviews. It was theatrically released in 2020 and is now available on cable and streaming in the US and abroad. Tibi Tendlu: The Dirt that Binds Us is Roee’s second feature with Platonic Films (this time as producer and editor), was released in 2024 by BayView Entertainment.