bios

Christopher Romero - Writer/Director
Christopher Romero spent his early childhood in Santa Fe, NM and in La Paz, Bolivia where he began studying art and music at a young age. Romero holds Undergraduate and Graduate degrees in Architecture from the University of New Mexico, and the University of Texas at Austin, and spent several years in the field of architecture before focusing on Fine Art, Film, and Writing. Romero is a studio professor and thesis advisor in the Graduate Program of Design and Technology at Parsons School of Design in New York. His work and writing have been published and exhibited internationally. He currently works from his studio in West Chelsea, NYC.

Romero's recent works include the short films and digital videos, "DOLLHOUSE", "The World of Calvin Klein" featuring Francisco Costa and Natalia Vodianova, The Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award film for Robert Lee Morris, the "CFDA Womenswear Film", featured at the 2006 CFDA Awards in New York, "Running Girl", "Detour", and "Joe and Charlie at the Ranch". Other installation or "artifact" based works include "Ghost Boxes" (video objects) and "Ghost Stories". "Joe and Charlie" is a unique film set in and around his hometown of Santa Fe, NM, that has screened widely in the US. The film was acquired by IFC in 2004, and aired throughout 2004 & 2005.

Romero's screenplays, "Anika's Room" and "Tamson West" have each been finalists in the Sundance Institute Feature Film Program in 2001, 2002, and 2003. "Anika's Room" was invited to the Hamptons Film Festival Writers Lab in 2002. His ongoing writing project "Ghost Town Chronicle" was the subject of a recent exhibition at Linda Durham Contemporary Art in New York. Other written works include, "Fire Elegy", "Winter Dreams on Quapaw", "The Clearing", "Escape Velocity", and "Scavenger Parade". With his short script, "Garden Of Exile", Romero was invited to the 2006 Berlinale where he presented at the Talent Campus. Current writing projects include the feature scripts "Summer of the O.P. Nation", and "Title of the Film."

Ramsey Fong - Producer
Ramsey Fong began working with distributor Strand Releasing while majoring in Film Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. Upon graduating, he moved to New York City to work at Killer Films on the production of Todd Solondz's "Happiness" and Bruce Wagner's "I'm Losing You". His other production credits include Woody Allen's "Sweet and Lowdown" and Brad Anderson's "Happy Accidents", in addition to consulting for distributor IFC Films. In 2001, he joined producer Susan Stover's production company, HeadQuarters, where he served as the Associate Producer on Patrick Stettner's "The Business of Strangers" and produced the short film "Missing", the United States competition entry at the 2005 Cannes International Film Festival. Most recently, he served as Associate Producer for Alex Steyermark's second feature film, "One Last Thing...", which had its world premiere at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival.

Frankie DeMarco - Director of Photography
Frankie DeMarco has worked as a director of photography on over a dozen feature and documentary films. His most recent project is Academy Award Winner Jessica Yu's "Ping Pong Player". Frankie's other recent projects include Warner Brothers' "Spring Breakdown," directed by Ryan Shiraki , John Cameron Mitchell's controversial "Shortbus"; Tom DiCillo's "Delirious" which was recently released. "Beerfest," directed by Jay Chandrasekhar was released in August 2006 by Warner Bros. "Shortbus" was a ThinkFilm release in October 2006.

Frankie's cinematography on "Habit" and "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" was nominated for Independent Spirit Awards. The documentary "Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey" won the Sundance Filmmaker's Trophy Award and many international awards. "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" won Best Director and the Audience Award at Sundance and numerous other awards internationally.

An avid environmentalist, Frankie drives a biodiesel-powered VW and has a solar-powered home and is trying to eat less meat.