José Antonio Romero

Place of birth:

La Rioja (Spain):

Biography:

José Antonio Romero is a Spanish producer, director, and screenwriter with an extensive career across all areas of the film industry. He began as a production assistant working with Luis García Berlanga, progressing through every level of the profession until he established his own production company, with which he made several notable films. These include Se buscan Fulmontis (1999), winner of the Audience Award at the Málaga Film Festival; Buñuel y la mesa del Rey Salomón (2001), directed by Carlos Saura and selected for the Cannes and San Sebastián Film Festivals; and La flaqueza del bolchevique (2003). The latter two were recognized with Goya Awards. In 2019, he wrote and directed Flores en la basura (2019), a feature-length documentary nominated for eight Goya Awards and selected for the Málaga and San Sebastián Film Festivals. In recent years, through his production company ChinaRioja, he has continued producing documentaries and is currently developing new television fiction series projects.