Romain SCHROEDER

After having successfully absolved business and finance studies at the "Institut Catholique des Hautes Etudes Commerciales" in Brussels, Schroeder spent one year with a software company designing software packages for small and medium sized companies.

In February 1990 he joined CLT Multi Media to become the assistant to the manager in charge of the CLT film library containing over 650 films. Nine months later, Schroeder took over the department and with the rapid growth of film production in Luxembourg, Schroeder became in 1991, together with Tom Reeve, joint managing directors of Delux Productions SA, a joint venture company bewtween CLT Multi Media and Joop Van Den Ende, an Amsterdam based producer and programm supplier to RTL 4.

Between 1991 and May 1995, Delux Productions, under the supervision of Schroeder and Reeve, produced in Luxembourg 18 films and mini series such as Jewels, a US$14 million 4 hour mini series for NBC based on a novel by Danielle Steel. Other award winning productions include the US$4.4 million MOW for CBS entitled "One Again the Wind" starring Judy Davis and Sam Neill.

In May 1995 Schroeder and Reeve parted company with Delux largely because the function was moving further away from production and more into studio management. They set up their own production company, The Carousel Picture Company, to continue the quality productions that they had made within Delux and in mid 1995 they produced two four hour miniseries for Showtime Cable Networks and BSkyB called On Dangerous Ground and The Midnite Man based on the novel and short story of the same name by Jack Higgins. Soon thereafter Schroeder and Reeve created their own studio infrastructure in Bertrange with two sound stages and a third one in Dommeldange. One year later they gave up the premisses in Bertrange and developped a 110,000 sqf studio infrastructure in Dommeldange.

Between 1995 and 2005, Carousel produced and co-produced 18 films (see filmography) with budgets ranging from 1,5 million to 30 millions dollars US. Carousel was a priviledged partner of the German fund "Apollo Media" and Carousel worked together with high profile cast, producers and directors. The film "The Musketeer", co-produced with Apollo and Moshe Diamant, finished as number one in the US box office on its opening weekend of September 9th, 2001.

During the course of 2008, Schroeder and Reeve partenered up with Nick and Duncan Napier-Bell of Edit Hire and they just completed filming in the UK of the two feature films "Holy Water" and "Blind Man's Bluff". For the funding of these films, Schroeder and Reeve were instrumental in closing a sole trader deal with a UK based investor.