Tomás Romero(1969-2023)
- Writer
- Producer
A native of Santa Cruz, California, Romero graduated cum laude from San
Francisco State University's progressive Film Studies program. Moving
south, Romero continued his education at the prestigious American Film
Institute in Los Angeles.
While at AFI, Romero wrote a total of four short film scripts, two of which were produced as second year thesis projects. That same year Romero was honored with the Sherill Corwin Screenwriter of the Year Award for his Master's thesis screenplay "Dead Celebrities".
Less than a year after graduating from AFI with his MFA in screenwriting, Romero sold his first spec screenplay, 'Lowlifes", a satire of his years in the retail trenches, to Twentieth Century Fox with Randa Haines attached to produce.
Other feature assignments soon followed, "Cinderella's Revenge" at Columbia, "Sorority Secrets" at Paramount, "Downsized" for independent producer Tom Barad, and Romero has also seen his AFI thesis script "Dead Celebrities" optioned by comic book company Top Cow Productions.
On the TV front, Romero has written a critically-lauded episode of Telemundo's landmark Spanish-language sitcom, "Los Beltrán" and was the first writer on MTV's original musical comedy, "The American Mall". Based on Romero's spec screenplay, "Lowlifes", "The American Mall" was produced by "High School Musical" exec producers Bill Borden and Barry Rosenbush and directed by award-winning director Shawn Ku.
Aside from screenwriting, Romero also served as the Director of Development at Minutia Films, a company he co-founded in 2004 as an independent production unit of CGI effects house, Luma Pictures.
"Not Forgotten", which Romero co-wrote with producer/director Dror Soref will be his first produced feature film.
While at AFI, Romero wrote a total of four short film scripts, two of which were produced as second year thesis projects. That same year Romero was honored with the Sherill Corwin Screenwriter of the Year Award for his Master's thesis screenplay "Dead Celebrities".
Less than a year after graduating from AFI with his MFA in screenwriting, Romero sold his first spec screenplay, 'Lowlifes", a satire of his years in the retail trenches, to Twentieth Century Fox with Randa Haines attached to produce.
Other feature assignments soon followed, "Cinderella's Revenge" at Columbia, "Sorority Secrets" at Paramount, "Downsized" for independent producer Tom Barad, and Romero has also seen his AFI thesis script "Dead Celebrities" optioned by comic book company Top Cow Productions.
On the TV front, Romero has written a critically-lauded episode of Telemundo's landmark Spanish-language sitcom, "Los Beltrán" and was the first writer on MTV's original musical comedy, "The American Mall". Based on Romero's spec screenplay, "Lowlifes", "The American Mall" was produced by "High School Musical" exec producers Bill Borden and Barry Rosenbush and directed by award-winning director Shawn Ku.
Aside from screenwriting, Romero also served as the Director of Development at Minutia Films, a company he co-founded in 2004 as an independent production unit of CGI effects house, Luma Pictures.
"Not Forgotten", which Romero co-wrote with producer/director Dror Soref will be his first produced feature film.
