Roland Mesa’s career has taken him from trailer editor to studio exec to filmmaker. At 20th Century Fox, Roland was instrumental in creating audio/visual and print campaigns for The Star Wars Trilogy: Special Edition, Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet, Waiting to Exhale and Independence Day (for which he and the Fox team were named “Entertainment Marketers of the Year”).

While at Cimarron, Roland produced advertising pieces for X-Men, Cheaper By the Dozen, Elf, Barbershop, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, and War of the Worlds. Roland’s directorial work includes an HBO “mockumentary” on Tim Burton, an episode of Tales From the Crypt, and the made-for-television film, Revenge of the Nerds III.

Roland’s work at Toy Box includes documentary, behind-the-scenes, and creative content for films like The Social Network, Ford V Ferrari, The Smurfs, and Goosebumps; HBO First Look episodes on The Peanuts Movie and Kingsman; and more in-depth documentary pieces for The Bridge which featured NY Times correspondent Damian Cave, Looper with author Brian Clegg, and Ice Age: Collision Course with Neal DeGrasse Tyson.

Roland has also produced promos, documentaries, and commercials for Walt Disney Parks & Resorts including the TV campaign made up of user-generated videos which was honored with the Mobius Award for Best Recreation, Leisure & Travel Campaign and the Silver Addy for Best National TV Campaign.

Other brand work includes directing six commercial spots for Tubi (winner, Shorty Awards – Best Multiplatform Campaign) as well as corporate image videos and PSA’s for The Will Rogers Institute, The ALS Association, AARP, The National MS Society. His documentary on the historic Sony Pictures (former MGM) studio lot is shown as part of the Sony Pictures VIP Tour.

Currently, Roland is in production on a feature documentary, Play The Game: A Jock ‘N’ Roll Story, which profiles the lives of six college football players from Northwestern in the 1970s, who went from playing on the worst team in the country to becoming bodyguards for rock legends Queen. playthegamefilm.com