Experience

Shaftesbury

• Canada
• Entertainment Providers
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Showrunner / Composer - TOPLINE

  • Feb 2021 - Present

  CBC Gem series about songwriters in Toronto CBC Gem series about songwriters in Toronto



Freelance

• Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Writer Director Producer

  • Aug 2014 - Present



Stratford Festival

• Canada
• Performing Arts
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Composer

  • Jan 2020 - Present

  Composing for Wendy And Peter Composing for Wendy And Peter



Netflix

• United States
• Entertainment Providers
• 700 & Above Employee

• Writer

  • Feb 2018 - Present

  Writer for Netflix series Another Life Writer for Netflix series Another Life



CBC Television

• Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Senior Producer - CBC ARTS

  • Jul 2015 - Feb 2020

  Leading a team of both in-house content creators and freelance filmmakers from across Canada. Overseeing all video content for all CBC Arts - television, Facebook, Youtube, Instagram. Launched multiple television and digital series including the CSA nominated Exhibitionists, Filmmakers, The Move, Canada Is A Drag, Art Hurts, Storytellers, Tiny Art and more. Responsible for over 100 hours of television content and over 700 short digital docs. Leading a team of both in-house content creators and freelance filmmakers from across Canada. Overseeing all video content for all CBC Arts - television, Facebook, Youtube, Instagram. Launched multiple television and digital series including the CSA nominated Exhibitionists, Filmmakers, The Move, Canada Is A Drag, Art Hurts, Storytellers, Tiny Art and more. Responsible for over 100 hours of television content and over 700 short digital docs.



Another Life Productions / Netflix

• Canada

• Story Consultant / Writer

  • Mar 2018 - Aug 2018

  Writer for Sci Fi drama Another Life, coming 2019 on Netflix Writer for Sci Fi drama Another Life, coming 2019 on Netflix



Bell Media

• MUCH, M3, BRAVO, SPACE, CTV

• Producer / Content Specialist / Series Development

  • Mar 2008 - Jul 2014

  - developing content strategy tailored to the viewer inclusive of programming, script supervision, social media posts and #campaigns - daily pop and music news hits (writer, producer) - daily music countdown show (series producer) - daily live audience interview and performance show (producer, floor director) - one-off specials (producer, writer, editor) - reality series - (story producer, field producer, series producer) - series and development - pilots - web, interstitials, branded content - (director, writer, editor) - live onscreen tweets and audience engagement - (tweeter) - channel rebrand - (sound design, art direction) - promotions and interstitials - (producer, editor, writer) SHOWS INCLUDE: - MMVAS 2008-2014 - Today’s Top Ten *helped grow audiences by 100% - Fruictis MUCH VJ Search - SPACE Summer Blockbuster Special - New Music Live - daily music and interview show - WE DAY 2012 - The Daily Fix - daily pop news - Where You At Baby? *Gemini nominated - Love Court - My Date With (Jason Derulo) - Discovered - Dinner With Matt with Eric Mcormack (Special) - Brunchin with Matt Wells and Lauren Toyota - Living With Drama (Pilot) - The Hazbeen (Pilot) - Guts (Pilot) BRANDED CONTENT Throughout his career as a producer at Bell Media, Romeo also played a critical role in the integration of sponsored content for the likes of partners Disney, Tourism Board of Mexico, Procter & Gamble, Fruictis. From product placement, to on air mentions, to competitions, to site specific sketches, Romeo has worked with clients to bring their brand to the masses. BRANDS INCLUDE: - Garnier Fruictis MUCH VJ Search - Maleficent (Disney) on Today’s Top Ten - Today’s Top Ten goes to Puerto Vallarta - NML Battlez sponsored by Skull Headphones Show less



Prison Dancer Inc

• Toronto, New York, Philippines

• Co-Founder, Creative Director, Composer

  • Dec 2009 - Jan 2013

  Prison Dancer : The Musical is the award winning transmedia storyworld that spans from theatre, to webseries, to performative cinema. The Prison Dancer identity is three-fold. As a LIVE stage musical Prison Dancer : The Musical has had 3 development workshops that have had been 100 % sold out run at the 2012 New York Musical Festival, 2011 Summerworks Festival (Toronto), 2010 fu-GEN Potluck Festival (Toronto). It won 3 awards at NYMF 2012 including best ensemble, notable featured performance, and best choreography. As a DIGITAL webseries, Prison Dancer : The Interactive Musical has accumulated a million impressions across various platforms, 750k views on Youtube and has been critically acclaimed and has been nominated and won many awards including Best Series, Best Director, Best Actor awards at the 2013 LA WEBFEST. Was featured in Buzzfeed, Trendhunter, Huffingtonpost, Playback. As a TRANSMEDIA cinema experience, Prison Dancer has been the first webseries to close the San Francisco Asian International Film Festival and was the centrepiece presentation at the 2012 Toronto Reel Asian Film Festival. Prison Dancer : The Musical, where it won Best Canadian Feature at the festival. It is currently being developped with Tony Award winning Producer Jonathan Reinis (Def Poetry Jam, Pippen, Phantom Of The Opera) to be an IMMERSIVE theatre experience. Romeo is a co-creator to this on-going and innovative project. He focuses his energy towards the roles of - community engagement and strategy - executive producer and director - content - i.e. script writing, song writing, digital storytelling - festival outreach and education - i.e. public speaker/panelist, spokesperson for the project - LGBTQ advocate www.prisondancer.com Show less



HERD INC

• Toronto ON

• Co-Founder / Content Strategist

  • Dec 2009 - Jan 2012

  Romeo is a co-founder of the start-up Herd.fm, a mobile music solution aimed at positioning itself as the new way for music sharing and discovery on mobile devices. Herd.fm began at the NBC Universal / CFC Digital Media Lab Incubator, where alongside his co-founders, they won seed financing to start a prototype of their idea to share music through phones. The project also secured financing from the Canadian Media Fund experimental stream. Herd.fm was the only Canadian company to compete at the 2012 SXSW Accelerator presented by Microsoft Bizmark. Mentors: Ana Serrano of the Canadian Film Centre Digital Media Lab and Sue McGill of MaRS. As a CCO, Romeo drove different areas of the Herd.fm product, including: - UX - music programming and A&R - investor pitches, managing the editorial calendar for marketing assets, and media relations - business development strategies, inclusive of implementing an enterprise tier designed for brands to use Herd.fm to generate and capture leads by way of engaging audiences. - press releases and PR strategy - immersive grassroots marketing strategy Show less



The Digital Sweatshop

• Toronto ON, Manila Philiippines

• Co-Founder / Director

  • Jan 2002 - Jan 2008

  The 'Sweatshop' developped and produced feature films, documentary films, dramatic + lifestyle television and digital properties through the lens of Filipino culture with the aim of telling universal stories. Their Canada / Philippines co-production feature film, Ang Pamana : The Inheritance made its world premiere at the Louis Vuitton Hawaii International Film Festival and won the Audience Award at the Winnipeg International Film Festival. - Film (director, writer, producer, sound designer) - Televison (director, writer, producer, sound designer) - Digital (director, writer, producer, sound designer, content strategist) PROJECTS INCLUDE: - Sightings Webseries (1.5 million views on Youtube) - Ang Pamana : The Inheritance (Feature film - theatrical release 2008) *Winner Best Film Winnipeg International Film Festival. - St Jamestown (Vision TV) *Winner Vision Television Diversity Program Award - Rolling Longaniza (CBC) - Lolo’s Child (Feature Film) *Winner 2002 Cinemanila Ishmael Bernal Award. - Dancers Pick Up Your Bamboos (Documentary) - Kuya Medley (Docu-musical) - Ron R.N. *Winner Spark Plug Award. http://thedigitalsweatshop.com/DigitalSweatshop/ Show less



VideoFilm

• Manila

• Commercial Director

  • Feb 2004 - Feb 2007

  As an in-house director at VideoFilm, Romeo directed close to 30 commercials. His unique ability to marry music, story and brands won him the contract of directing the Globe Gentext campaign which was one of the biggest ad campaigns in Manila in 2004. In 2007 he worked with McCann Erikson on the first successful Viral Ad campaign, where his webseries ‘ SIGHTINGS’ garnered hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube in a short period of time and has since amassed 1.5 million hits. His ability to work with actors, celebrities and tell emotional stories made him an in demand talent resulting in a variety of commercials. BRANDS INCLUDE: - Coca Cola - Unilab - Globe Telecom - Centrum - Unilever - Kopiko - PLDT - MAGGI - Bonakid Show less