ROSA ROMERO

Producer

Rosa was born and grew up in Barcelona. In 1983 she started working in the newly created Catalan television, TV3, producing over 100 hours of music and arts programmes, including the award winning Arsenal. She left in 1987 to start a production company with director Manuel Huerga, producing documentaries and pop promos.

Wanting to move into feature films, Rosa took part in the first EAVE seminar of the Media Programme (1988-89). As a result, in 1990 she produced Boom Boom directed by Rosa Vergés. The film was selected for the Venice Film Festival Critics’ Week and for the Montreal Film Festival. Awarded the best Catalan film of the year, it also won the Spanish Goya award as the Best First Film.

Then she produced Felix Rotaeta´s Chatarra, starring Carmen Maura, which was the only Spanish entry in the 1991 Venice Film Festival’s Official Competition, and won the Special Quality Award from the Spanish Ministry of Culture. In 1992 she co-produced Sur la Terre Comme au Ciel by Marion Hansel - again with Carmen Maura - which was selected for the Berlin Film Festival. In 1994, she produced Souvenir, Rosa Verges’ second feature.

During that period, she also produced various documentaries and short films, including Quien Mal Anda, Mal Acaba, which won the Best Short Film Award at the Montreal Film Festival, and line produced Barcelona by Whit Stillman.

From 1991 to 1995 she sat on the board of ACPCA (Association of Catalan Producers) and of FAPAE (Spanish Federation of Producers Associations).

In 1995 Rosa moved to London. Since then she has line produced several films, amongst them, Robert Rylands’ Last Journey by Gracia Querejeta, The Sea Change by Michael Bray with Ray Winstone, and Presence of Mind by Antoni Aloy, starring Sadie Frost, Harvey Keitel and Lauren Bacall. She has also worked on I.D. by Phil Daniels, Blue Juice by Carl Prechezer and Carla’s Song by Ken Loach and production managed the Spanish shoot of Plunkett & Macleane by Jake Scott and Kevin and Perry Go Large by Ed Bye.

In 2000 Rosa produced Life for Daniel for BBC’s Plays for Today, executive produced by Gordon Newman. She also worked with producer Leslee Udwin preparing the film In Search of the Assassin to be directed by Gillies Mackinnon, which was postponed.

In 2001 she has worked as Production Manager on Mike Figgis’ film Hotel , which was shot in Venice, and as Line Producer on the Newcastle set romantic comedy The One and Only, produced by Leslee Udwin and directed by Simon Cellan-Jones.

Besides working in films, she also works in foreign commercials shooting in England like Repsol, Telefonica and BMW.

Currently she is developing new feature projects for Amaranth Film Partners.

Rosa speaks English, Spanish, Catalan, French and Italian.