Collaboration with Nautilus Films, produced by Victor Erice, started in 2001 with the short film "Lifeline" and remains until today. In all productions and projects that Victor Erice has developed over the years, Cesar Romero serves as executive producer and assistant director. Global Stone Films provides ongoing support for Nautilus Films.

 

In 2001, Victor Erice approached Ruedo Productions with the proposal he had made with Road Movies (Wim Wenders’s production company) to undertake a short 10 minute film, which focused on the passage of time and to be part of the compilation film "Ten minutes older" with parts of other great directors like Bernardo Bertolucci, Spike Lee, Jim Jarmusch, Wim Wenders and Jean-Luc Godard.

Thus was born "Lifeline" produced by Nautilus Films and Ruedo Productions, which was shot in October 2001 in Llanes, Asturias.

It was presented at the Cannes Film Festival 2002 in the film "Ten minutes older, the trumpet" where it obtained splendid reviews and was considered one of the best parts of the entire film (including film magazine Variety which reported it to be the best 10 minutes of the whole film festival in that edition).

"Lifeline" is published in Spain, on sale exclusively at FNAC, on a DVD whose main content is "La Morte Rouge".

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Correspondence between Erice - Kiarostami is part of a joint exhibition of Abbas Kiarostami and Victor Erice presented at the CCCB in Barcelona, La Casa Encendida in Madrid and the Centre Pompidou in Paris during 2006. The two directors began corresponding by letter, thereafter exchanging each others videos created from the letters, developing an “Audiovisual” relationship. The Audiovisual contents were low production cost, great creative freedom and narrative. All videos were produced by Victor Erice Nautilus Films, executive producer Cesar Romero. Technical crew have varied according to the needs of each video. The relationship lasted from 2005-2007.

 

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As part of the exhibition Correspondence Erice - Kiarostami, in order to be projected independently in one of the rooms, Erice created "La morte rouge". A 35-minute audiovisual piece described as "soliloquy", in which Victor Erice as narrator tells us his first film experience, the first movie he remembered seeing. It was "The Scarlet Claw", a film about Sherlock Holmes set in a Canadian village called La Morte Rouge.
Here is a unique work, consisting of archive images and clips made specifically for the film, which has has a significant presence of the narrator's voice and soundtrack that takes us wherever we want to take his creativity.

"La Morte Rouge" is published in Spain, on a DVD for sale exclusively at FNAC, along with "Lifeline" plus various extra content.

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In August of 2011, the clip filmed in Madrid "Ana, three minutes," directed by Victor Erice, was made to form part of the collective film "3:11, A sense of home" to raise funds for victims of the earthquake Japan in March 2011. This piece was nonprofit, all the cast and crew working for free and Nautilus Films covering the necessary costs of production. The film "3:11 A sense of home" included the work of 20 other directors / artists that always made clips of 3 minutes and 11 seconds long in reference to 03/03/2011, the date on which the earthquake struck the coast of Japan killing hundreds in just over 3 minutes. The film was initiated by the Nara International Film Festival in Japan, where it premiered in September 2001 at the Temple of Kinpusenji. The executive producer of the whole project was Naomi Kawase, who also contributed as a director of one of the parts of the movie. This film has been screened at over 20 festivals throughout the world.

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In 2012 Nautilus Films produced a new clip of Victor Erice for a collective of 4 film directors (Manuel de Oliveira, Pedro Costa, Aki Kaurismaki and Victor Erice) funded by Guimaraes 2012 the European cultural capital. The movie "Historical Center" has a clip from each of these directors, being "Vidros Partidos" a clip of 35 minutes, directed by Victor Erice, in which César Romero was executive producer and assistant director.

The world premiere was in November at the opening session of the Festival Internazionale del Film di Roma 2012 and subsequently was screened as part of the European cultural capital Guimaraes. It was also presented at: 13th Tokyo FILMEX Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival 2013, International Film Festival in Guadalajara 2013 (Mexico) and Bafici 2013 in Buenos Aires, among others.

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In 2010 the film "REST AREA", directed by Michael Aguiló, Cesar Romero was the Executive Producer and Global Stone Films produced 25% with Alamo Productions and Jose Manuel Quiroga PC. This film was funded by the Ministry of Culture, with the participation of the Generalitat Valenciana and purchase of broadcasting rights from Channel 9.

The film has been selected at festivals CINEMED 2011 (France), Biron Bay International Film Festival 2012 (Australia), 2012 Edmonton International Film Festival (Canada), Oaxaca International Film Festival 2012 (Mexico), Cinema Jove 2012 (Valencia, Spain ) and Syracuse International film Festival 2012 (New York, USA) where it obtained a special mention as the second best feature film

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“PLANES PARA MAÑANA” (PLANS FOR TOMORROW) is a feature film produced by Teoponte PC, Monte Film & Viernes Productions, with support from the Extremadura Ministry of Culture. Cesar Romero was the line producer of the film shot in the province of Caceres and Madrid in October 2009.

Directed by Juana Macias and starring Carme Elias, Ana Labordeta, Goya Toledo and Aura Garrido.

It was presented at the 13th edition of the Málaga Spanish Film Festival 2010 where it won Best Director Award (Juana Macias) Best Screenplay Award (Juana Macias, Juan Moreno and Alberto Bermejo) and Supporting Actress Award (Aura Garrido). In 2011 it was nominated for two Goyas, Best New Director (Juana Macias) and Best New Actress (Aura Garrido). It premiered in Spain in November 2010.

Outside of Spain, it was presented in the official section of the London Film Festival and the Montreal International Film Festival.

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