Roman is an award-winning film director who has produced films for festivals and television throughout the world. Among his best-known films are Ukrainian Sheriffs, Euromaidan: Rough Cut and Volcano.

Roman’s feature-length documentary Ukrainian Sheriffs won the Special Jury Prize at IDFA in 2015 and was selected as the Ukrainian submission to the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. His second documentary Dixie Land (2016) premiered at the Full Frame Film Festival USA and received a Golden Duke Award for Best Ukrainian Film at the Odesa International Film Festival. Bondarchuck received the Shevchenko National Prize, Ukraine's highest state prize for cultural works, for directing Volcano. The film won the Grand Prize at international film festivals in Armenia, Croatia, China and Morocco. The film won 11 international awards and was included in the program of more than 40 international festivals.

Roman's latest feature film, The Editorial Office was premiered at the Berlinale in 2024. Roman also works as an art director and member of the selection committee of the International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival Docudays UA. He has been invited as a jury member at film festivals in Sheffield, Sofia, Tbilisi, Odesa, and others. As a guest tutor, he has worked for the Baltic Sea Forum and the Doc Nomads program at the University of Budapest. Roman is a member of the Ukrainian Union of Cinematographers, as well as the Ukrainian Film Academy. From 2020 to 2023, he worked as a member of its board. Since February 2022, he has been working on the development of the Ukraine War Archive for the preservation and systematization of evidence of the Russian invasion to Ukraine.