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George C. Romero
George C. Romero
Born	June 1, 1972; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Nationality	Spanish/Scottish
Other names	George Romero, George Cameron Romero, Cameron Romero
Citizenship	United States
Education	B.A., English Literature, A.S. Film Production
Occupation	Writer/Director/Producer
Organization(s)	Romero Pictures, LLC
Known for	"Staunton Hill," "Radical," "The Auctioneers," "Outlaws and Lunatics"
Height	6 ft 3 in (191 cm)
Spouse	Rebecca Brewer
Children	Seth Edwards, Alexxa Horn
Parents	George Andrew Romero (father); Nancy McKim Romero (mother);
Website	http://romeropictures.com

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George Cameron Romero (/rəˈmɛroʊ/; June 1, 1972) is an American filmmaker, writer and producer, best known for his film Staunton Hill (2009^[1]), an Anchor Bay/Universal Pictures horror films about a group of travelers during the turbulent summer of 1969 and stumble across a family farm that earns their living by trafficking illegally and brutally acquired organs on the black market. Other films of Romero's include his first feature, "Plant Life" (1995), "The Screening" (2007^[2]), "The Auctioneers" (2010) and "Radical" (2011). Romero's has also directed as a gun for hire, "Auteur" and the Portland Film Festival's high profile short, "Zombie Day Apocalypse," which landed Romero in the Guiness Book of Records for the largest number of live-action zombies in a single scene in the history of film. In addition to the 23 films he has either written/produced and/or directed, Romero conceived and co-founded Western Pennsylvania's first comprehensive commercial and film production studio, Batpack Studios, where he wrote, produced and directed more than 125 creative and commercial campaigns for Fortune 500 clients like Verizon, Sony Electronics, The Lending Tree and AIG and produced content for bands such as Gnarls Barkley, James Blunt and Panic! at the Disco.

Romero is often noted as the son of the legendary pioneer of the horror film genre, George A. Romero, the "Father of the Zombie Film".

Early life

Romero was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to a Cuban/Lithuanian American father and a Scottish/Irish mother. His paternal grandfather has been reported as born in A Coruña, with his family coming from the Galician town of Neda, although Romero's father, George A. Romero once described his own father as of Castilian descent. While raised in a suburb of Pittsburgh, Romero was known for making his way into the city at a young age to spend his days at Eide's, a local comic book and music store also known for their rare collection of hard-to-find genre films where he began his own passionate appetite for devouring everything nobody had ever heard of. Knightriders was the first set Romero ever saw when his father, George, took him to work. Romero was awestruck at all the moving parts that went into his father's job description and his fascination with creating films took hold leading him to begin shooting backyard films with an 8mm Kodak that his mother had given him for his birthday. At the age of 17, Romero's wanderlust took hold and he began a several year period as a hobo hopping trains as his primary mode of transportation after being inspired by the works of Henry David Thoreau. Romero worked odd jobs around the country to earn money for food and basics while surviving off the land for the most part. Romero attended Thiel College.

Career

1980s -1990a

Beginning in 1988, Romero finagled his way onto the sets of films like The 'Burbs and Road House (1989 film) where he managed to fly under the radar long enough to "not get fired" as a production assistant and earned enough respect for his efforts and willingness learn that he was able to continue working his way through departments learning everything anyone was willing to teach and working to understand the process of filmmaking at a granular level. Romero attended the Valencia School of Film in Orlando, Fl after having worked on several crews and directed his first feature, "Plant Life" in 1993 at the age of 21.

While working on the set of Ransom (1996 film), Romero received word that his mother had taken ill and had lost her eyesight to macular degeneration. Leaving the set and taking a hiatus from the world of film production Romero spent several years as her primary caregiver and was in need of work which led him to the world of computer programming, learning HTML, JavaScript, PHP and SQL which he used to develop proprietary website solutions and becoming an early leader in offering GUI content management to his clients and thus removing the need for programming knowledge in order to update information on their own websites.

It wasn't long until Romero's true passion took hold again and with his newfound understanding of delivering content via websites, Romero began working tirelessly to deliver early video content via websites and developed his own proprietary video compression methods that allowed for the delivery of lag-free video prior to the advent of true streaming technology.

Late in the 1990s, Romero's skills had led him into the world of advertising and marketing and he opened a boutique branding agency in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that quickly grew a client book that clients often referred to as "thicker than the Manhattan phone book."

Personal life

Romero has been married twice. His first wife, Andrea, whom he married in 2000 and divorced in 2009. They had no children together. George married his second wife, retired Search and Rescue worker and first responder, Rebecca, whom he met on a stopover in Kentucky while shooting a cross-country documentary about his long-time friend J. B. Beverley early in 2016. Rebecca has two children, Alexxa and Seth and Romero is cited as saying that "wish[es] they were both his biologicals." Romero has since relocated his home to rural Kentucky where he has formed his Kentucky-based production company and lives with his wife and stepson, Seth. Romero maintains a home in Santa Monica, CA.

Influences

Having earned a degree in English Literature, Romero has often stated that his literary influences have included Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Castaneda, Hunter S. Thompson, Henry Miller, Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley and a laundry list of others. As a filmmaker, his influence began as a child when he was first shown a film his father often referred to as his favorite film of all time, Michael Powell's The Tales of Hoffmann (film). Fascinated by his own father's obsession with the film, Romero began to understand his own need to make films and started looking to his own father's work as a measure of what made a movie complete. His own influences expanded quickly to the likes of Mario Bava, Dario Argento, John Carpenter, Wes Craven and Alfred Hitchcock. As his own visual vocabulary began to grow, Romero began to find inspiration in films by Sergio Leone, Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg, Sidney Lumet, Robert Altman, Mike Nichols, Mel Brooks, Sylvester Stallone and many others. As a writer, Romero began to deconstruct his father's screenplays as a roadmap to understanding the structure of a story and penned several screenplays before meeting his mentor, Warren Lewis (screenwriter) in a chance encounter at Chasen's when a conversation about Stanley Kubrick's lenses sparked a lifelong friendship. Romero has quoted Lewis' advice to him as including the mantra "don't worry about writing fast... worry about writing well. You will eventually and inevitably write fast."