Rommel Andreo Sales graduated from the University of the Philippines with a Bachelor of Arts degree on Film and Audio-Visual Communication. In 2007, he attended the Berlinale Talent Campus in Germany, which opened many opportunities for his personal and artistic growth as a promising director and cinematographer. His recently lauded works in film include The Leaving, a 2010 Cinemalaya finalist, in which he won best cinematography; Squatters in Mars, a sci-fi short film about the future of the Philippines which won 3rd place at the Philippine Graphic Fiction Award.
Slow Fade, his first feature, was a product of the 2009 PLDT-SMART Foundation and Cinemabuhay film grant competition in which he bested out several veteran directors for the prize.
Slow Fade recently was chosen as among the five indie films to participate in the 2010 MMFF TxtB4 Marriage, a documentary finalist to the 2008 Dekada Cinemanila International Film Festival. His other works are
Ranchero, a feature film screened in Cinemalaya 2009 and adjudged as the official selection for the Paris Cinema International Film Festival; and Paano Kaya Managinip ang Taong Grasa, an official short film entry to the SP* T Film Festival in New York, 2003. Rommel has done work for different production outfits, TV stations as well as different government and non-government offices in the Philippines. He has shot close to a hundred music videos some of which have won awards at the MTV Philippines music video awards. Rommel believes that film should always try to speak of the realities in life whether fictional or documentary. Film is life presented with cinematography.
