As a storyteller, I believe that at the core of every great story are great characters that move the story forward, and not the other way around. Creating and developing legendary characters is the most important part of my vision as a filmmaker. And inspiring and entertaining people of all ages is my main goal.
My love for movies and storytelling started at a very young age. From the short age of 3, when I was making up adventure stories about characters traveling through time and space by being trapped in a portal I aptly named ‘the circle of time’; to my parents taking me to the movie theater every single week from the age of 5. Movies and fantastical stories have always been a main part of my life.
Roma Kong is an L.A. based Writer-Director, Producer, Editor, and former professional dancer, who has worked on sold out live-stage shows, award-winning films, and massively viewed digital content in the USA, and in her native Peru. While still working in the Peruvian capital, she produced the nationally successful X International Young Dancers Festival 2013, the first ever held in Peru, and the sold out shows La Danse en Todas Sus Expresiones and Monster, a show that she also directed and choreographed, for the National School of Ballet, Peru’s premier ballet conservatory and her former ballet school. She attained a Master of Fine Arts in Film and Television Production from the prestigious USC School of Cinematic Arts, where she earned the Kodak Cinematography Scholarship and the Charles Lang Endowed Scholarship, directed the award-winning music video Bloody Mary and various short films, and earned a nomination at the First Look Film Festival for her work as a Production Designer in the musical short film Mango Sticky Rice. Since graduating, she has worked as an editor for Disney, Nickelodeon, DC Entertainment, Netflix, and Westbrook Media. In 2021, she was the lead producer and a co-writer on the SXSW Special Jury Recognition winning feature film I’M FINE (Thanks for Asking), which is being distributed by BET+ and HBO Europe; as well as directed and produced the dark comedy-horror short Bitch, You Thirsty, which premiered at the Nightmares Film Festival in Ohio. Most recently, she co-produced and post-production supervised the upcoming historical feature Canyon of the Dead, starring Abigail Lawrie, Tom Felton, Ewen Bremner, Wes Studi, Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, Finn Jones, and Abigail Breslin. She’s currently developing a dark fantasy TV show, and two feature films.