Ramy Romany | |
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 Romany standing in front of the Sphinx in 2013 | |
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Ramy Romany is an Egyptologist, documentarian, TV host and Directors Guild of America (DGA) director, active since 2011. He has filmed, produced, directed, and been featured in more than a hundred documentaries, and has worked with networks such as The Discovery Channel, The History Channel, and National Geographic. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Romany was born in Cairo, Egypt. [3] He moved to Los Angeles in 2011 due to the political situation in Egypt. [1] Between 2013 and 2018, he won 9 EMMY Awards for his work on Esperanza (2013), Visioneer (2015), Return to Esperanza (2016), [5] A New Leash on Life: The K9s for Warriors Story (2018), and Rudy Ruettiger: The Walk On (2018). [2] [6] [7] [8]
Romany has directed multiple productions in different genres, including: The Contender , [9] a boxing competition series for MGM on EPIX; [10] Unprotected Sets ; [11] [12] Operation Toussaint, [13] which follows a former U.S. special agent who goes undercover to rescue victims of sex trafficking; [14] and several commercials. [15]
While working on The Contender, Romany, colorist Dean Perme, and Jason Hafer [ who? ] created a custom 3D LUT to give the show a "period feel that felt like film", which supported the cinematic approach that Romany took with his directing. [10] In March 2019, it was announced that Romany would serve as executive producer and host of the new Discovery Channel series Mummies Unwrapped. [16] The series featured Romany traveling to ancient Egyptian tombs, Mayan mass graves, and hidden crypts to uncover the legends, myths, curses and cover-ups of the ancient past. [17] He used cutting-edge technologies to introduce new theories about how ancient civilizations lived and died, and to uncover the origin of each mummy. [16]