Romén Rivero

Romén Rivero was born in Gran Canaria, one of Spain's Canary Islands, in 1979. Without specific studies in cinema. Romén read all filmmaking books he could get his hands on and watched DVD special features instead. He is passionate about fantasy and horror genres since childhood and has written, produced, and directed the indie shorts Volver a Casa (Coming Home), Thánatos, and Noctámbulos (Night Owls), a horror neo-noir tribute to the 80's cult classics. Shot with a $500 budget, DSLR camera and no crew. Noctámbulos (Night Owls) has won 14 internationals awards including Best Foreign Language Short at the Hollywood Horrorfest 2019 in Los Angeles; and has 100 official selections in more than 35 countries up to date. Highlighting its official selections at the Macabro Film Fest 2019 (named one of the 30 Bloody Best Genre Fests in the World in 2019 by MovieMaker Magazine); the Panic Fest 2020 (named one of the 25 Bloody Best Genre Fests in the World in 2020 by MovieMaker Magazine); the Razor Reel Flanders Film Festival 2019 in Belgium (member of the prestigious Melies International Festivals Federation); the HorrorHound Film Fest 2019 (Indianapolis); and also was one the 10 shorts selected for the Texas Frightmare weekend 2019. Also, Romén shot a 30 minutes indie drama in 2016, Babemba, semi-finalits at film festivals in Italy and Latin America; and wrote several unproduced short film and feature scripts. Currently he's working on his feature debut, Night Birds, wich expands the Noctámbulos (Night Owls) story. The Night Birds script, was part of the official selection at the New York City Horror Film Festival 2019 screenplay competition (December 2019).