Verdi-Rose directed and co-produced True Guts, the award winning documentary film on Crohn’s disease recognized with a Freddie Award at the International Health & Medical Media Awards in 2007. Establishing himself as an Assistant Director working on films such as: Meet Bill,, Award of Merit in the Los Angeles Cinema Festival of Hollywood and nominated for Best Picture and HRIFF Award in the Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival Verdi-Rose directed the film Sand Castles which premiered in Los Angeles in June 2014 during Dances With Films at the TCL Chinese Theatre. It earned him nominations for Best Director at the Julien DubuqueInternational Film Festival 2014 and the New York Visionfest. Sand Castles' film won Best Feature Film awards at Gasparilla International Film Festival, Grand Rapids Film Festival, Myrtle Beach International Film Festival, Rainer Independent Film Festival, and Best Feature and Audience Awardat the RiverBend Film Festival and the Award of Merit at Catalina Film Festival in 2014. It was also nominated for Grand JuryBest Film and won Best Ensemble Cast at the 2014. Director Verdi-Rose and cinematographer, Chris Faulisi were praised for Sand Castles film for "lingering in the mind a few bravura visuals", and Critic David Appleford of Valley Screen and Stage wrote, "the director, Clenét Verdi-Rose, has delivered a feature that needs to venture further than the confines of the festival circuit." Verdi-Rose was listed in list of with Jeff McNichols and Gia Coppola. In 2015, Clenét Verdi-Rose was nominated for a James Beard Award for Excellence in Visual and Technical Excellence as a Producer of the Tastemade show, food show. It was later picked up by the Cooking Channel. Producing the " that highlights chefs across America for their culinary specialties and cultural aspects, Verdi-Rose was awarded The for Film and Video: Documentary series in 2016. Clenét Verdi-Rose was awarded the Best Directing Winner by the IAWTV International Academy of Web Television, Inc. on October 4, 2017 at the Skirball Center, Los Angeles for the Tastemade show. "Kitchen Little" is a Tastemade series that has kids watch a how-to recipe video and then instruct a professional chef in creating the foods with a comedic tone. Variety recommended it on its list to see on Facebook Watch. "Kitchen Little" was also nominated by the category in 2018. "From television commercials to feature films to fun food videos with celebrity chefs and kids, this immensely talented storyteller is making Falmouth proud" is noted in his hometown newspaper and "one who connects people all over the world. Stories like that may be shared via social media, but they are understood, they are felt when shared from person to person." Clenét Verdi-Rose as Director and Producer, in 2020, was awarded Award for the Tastemade winning show, "Sunday at Nana's" with comedian and host, Ian Hecox, in the category of Social/ Food & Dinner.
Personal life
Clenét Verdi-Rose moved to Los Angeles, California in 2005 to pursue his career in filmmaking.
