Production
José Antonio Romero
Place of birth
La Rioja (Spain)
Known for
Production
Credits
13 titles
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 Flore…
Known for
NRThe queue is a visual poem. A reflection of this society, increasingly lacking in solidarity. It can be the unemployment line, the hunger line, the line of the sick, the retired, women, migrants. We are all standing before that door, always closed to those who have nothing and wait in vain for the Leviathan that is the State to let them in and become part of a society that casts them aside like outcasts.
La Cola
2022
NRAnonymous lives… Real lives… Lives that deserve to be told.
Pucela
2024
Documentary about the figure of Práxedes Mateo Sagasta on the occasion of the centenary of his death.
Sagasta, el discurso de los puentes
2003
5.4The old Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel (1900-83) imagines a movie plot, set in Toledo in the future 2002, about the fantastic adventure of three actors, who play him and his friends, the painter Salvador Dalí (1904-89) and the poet Federico García Lorca (1898-1936), and their search for King Solomon's table, a mythical artifact capable of revealing the past, present and future.
Bunuel and King Solomon's Table
2001
NRFilmed over the course of 2013 to 2019, it is a photograph of the scars left by the Great Recession in Spain. Who are the losers of this crisis? Young people, women, workers between 35 and 45 who will never again be what they trained to be, those over 45 who have lost their jobs, retirees who see their purchasing power shrink, the “emotional proletariat”… and this film is about them.
Flores en la basura
2019
5.0When a man of identical appearance to him is killed in the street, scientist Diego Durand realises that the flashes of déjà vu that torment him are part of a sinister secret past that he must uncover.
Proyecto Dos
2008
Behind the camera
NRThe queue is a visual poem. A reflection of this society, increasingly lacking in solidarity. It can be the unemployment line, the hunger line, the line of the sick, the retired, women, migrants. We are all standing before that door, always closed to those who have nothing and wait in vain for the Leviathan that is the State to let them in and become part of a society that casts them aside like outcasts.
La Cola
2022
NRThe queue is a visual poem. A reflection of this society, increasingly lacking in solidarity. It can be the unemployment line, the hunger line, the line of the sick, the retired, women, migrants. We are all standing before that door, always closed to those who have nothing and wait in vain for the Leviathan that is the State to let them in and become part of a society that casts them aside like outcasts.
La Cola
2022
NRThe queue is a visual poem. A reflection of this society, increasingly lacking in solidarity. It can be the unemployment line, the hunger line, the line of the sick, the retired, women, migrants. We are all standing before that door, always closed to those who have nothing and wait in vain for the Leviathan that is the State to let them in and become part of a society that casts them aside like outcasts.
La Cola
2022
NRAnonymous lives… Real lives… Lives that deserve to be told.
Pucela
2024
NRAnonymous lives… Real lives… Lives that deserve to be told.
Pucela
2024
NRAnonymous lives… Real lives… Lives that deserve to be told.
Pucela
2024
Documentary about the figure of Práxedes Mateo Sagasta on the occasion of the centenary of his death.
Sagasta, el discurso de los puentes
2003
5.4The old Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel (1900-83) imagines a movie plot, set in Toledo in the future 2002, about the fantastic adventure of three actors, who play him and his friends, the painter Salvador Dalí (1904-89) and the poet Federico García Lorca (1898-1936), and their search for King Solomon's table, a mythical artifact capable of revealing the past, present and future.
Bunuel and King Solomon's Table
2001
NRFilmed over the course of 2013 to 2019, it is a photograph of the scars left by the Great Recession in Spain. Who are the losers of this crisis? Young people, women, workers between 35 and 45 who will never again be what they trained to be, those over 45 who have lost their jobs, retirees who see their purchasing power shrink, the “emotional proletariat”… and this film is about them.
Flores en la basura
2019
NRFilmed over the course of 2013 to 2019, it is a photograph of the scars left by the Great Recession in Spain. Who are the losers of this crisis? Young people, women, workers between 35 and 45 who will never again be what they trained to be, those over 45 who have lost their jobs, retirees who see their purchasing power shrink, the “emotional proletariat”… and this film is about them.
Flores en la basura
2019
NRFilmed over the course of 2013 to 2019, it is a photograph of the scars left by the Great Recession in Spain. Who are the losers of this crisis? Young people, women, workers between 35 and 45 who will never again be what they trained to be, those over 45 who have lost their jobs, retirees who see their purchasing power shrink, the “emotional proletariat”… and this film is about them.
Flores en la basura
2019
5.0When a man of identical appearance to him is killed in the street, scientist Diego Durand realises that the flashes of déjà vu that torment him are part of a sinister secret past that he must uncover.
Proyecto Dos
2008
10.0Lola is a young gypsy of uncertain origin who was adopted, as a newborn, by a family among whom she has grown up with gypsy customs and traditions. When the young woman finishes high school, she considers, against her family and her social environment, to continue her studies and pursue a teaching career. At that moment of his adolescent life, love appears when he meets Juan, a gypsy of his age.
Lola vende cá
2002
