Rómulo Guardia Granier (born 13 September 1961) is a
Venezuela
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n film producer.
Film/production career background
Guardia was educated in
France
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,
England
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, and the
University of California, San Diego
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in the
United States
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. He started his career in the late 1980s directing video clips, music shows and spots for record companies such as
Polygram
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,
MCA,
WEA
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,
Sony Music
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and
Deutsche Grammophon
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. During this period he worked with renowned artists such as
Menudo,
Desorden Publico,
Julio Iglesias
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and the
New World Symphony
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* New, singer of K-pop group The Boyz
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.
In 1993 he became one the original
MTV
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Miami team members that created MTV Latino and was instrumental in the launching of the station in 1993. While at MTV, Guardia directed and produced shows as ''MTV International with Daisy Fuentes'', ''In Situ'', ''Rock n´Gol'' and
Pink Floyd
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´s ''Division Bell'' Concert (
Miami
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).
Later in 1997, Rómulo Guardia accepted a directorial position with
Discovery Networks
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, where he is credited with setting up and directing the production and post production teams at the Discovery Television Center in Miami.
List of productions
Features
*''Titanic Live''
*''Inside Titanic''
*''Eco Challenge ´98 Morocco and Eco Challenge '99 Argentina'',
*''Wild Discovery'',
*''Discovery News'',
*''Breakfast with Frost'' (
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In addition he created and directed high-profile branded film spots for clients such as
His creative work was recognized with the ''Gold Promax/BDA'', ''Peer'', ''Gold Telly'' and ''Gold and Silver Addy'' Awards.
(Radio Caracas Television, Channel 2), a TV network in Venezuela. Romulo has developed shows such as '' Archivo Criminal'' ''Archivos del Mas Alla'' ''Sonoclips'' and ''Chatodromo'' among many others. He has executive-produced three Movies of the Week, ''Chupacabra'', ''La Sayona'' and ''Maria Lionza'', and ''La Rumba de Fin de Mundo'' (''Party ´till the End of the World'') is Rómulo's long format directorial debut.
In 2008, Guardia adapted, produced and directed ''
''. The film earned several awards such as ''San Francisco Frozen Film Festival'' and ''Strasbourg Int Film Festival'' and was showcased in ''Los Angeles Latino Int. Film Festival'', ''South Africa Int Film Festival'',''London International Film Festival'', ''New York Independent Film Fest'' and the ''Chicago Latino Film Festival''
Romulo manages a digital television and media center in Caracas, Angostura Media. Angostura Media launched in 2018 the ZUT.tv project, a 3 screen TV interactive music network dedicated to all genres of music for Hispanic Millennials and GenZs.