Guillermo R. Rodríguez Romaguera is a narrative filmmaker and film scholar from San Juan, Puerto Rico. His directorial debut The Shadows premiered at Los Angeles’s Outfest LGBTQ Film Festival in their Dramatic Competition and is currently available on Amazon Prime. He is also the producer of the indie coming of age feature Sweet Thing, which debuted at the Seattle International Film Festival, and the horror short Totem Goat, which premiered at the Cannes Short Film Festival. In addition to writing, directing, and producing, Guillermo has edited four feature films, a documentary series for The History Channel and promos for CBS, NBC and DirecTV.
Prior to arriving at CSUN, Guillermo was Assistant Professor of Narrative Filmmaking at Santa Clara University and Teaching Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the author of the book Spanish Meta-Art and Contemporary Cinema: Mirrors to the Unconscious (Bloomsbury, 2023), and his academic work has been published in Studies in European Cinema, Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America and the Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies. He is currently writing and developing a queer Latinx horror film titled Mala Coda while working on his second book-length academic project, tentatively titled The Fluid Gaze of Latinx Spectatorship: Transgender and Interracial Visual Pleasure in the Horror Film.
