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Management and Organization
ROSE BAUER
WRITER, PRODUCER, DIRECTOR
Ms. Bauer received her education at the University of Southern California film school. Ms. Bauer has worked in the film and television business for over twenty years in areas of casting, production design and art directing, editing, unit production managing, line producing as well as writing, producing and directing.
As many who spend years trying to break through into the film industry with little luck, Bauer found it hard to get her own projects off the ground. It was often times a grueling process with no positive results. In order to buffer the stress brought about from the challenging life of an independent film producer, Ms. Bauer opened the Rosetta Stone Gallery in 1993 in Los Angeles, California. The gallery, located in the Los Feliz community, featured high-end antiques and art. Soon the gallery became a meeting place for local and international artists as well as other creative individuals such as writers, poets, singers and musicians. “It was an exhilarating time" Bauer said “but after four years I began to see it as a distraction and realized I had to get back to putting 100 percent focus on my own film projects.” Rather then closing the popular gallery, she gave it away so it could continue to be the colorful place it had become.
Bauer went back to freelance for several years in order to keep time available for advancing her own projects. Then in 2000 took a leap of faith, raising enough seed money to form Rosetta Stone Pictures. Between 2000 and 2003 Rosetta Stone Pictures with it's small but dynamic team, produced an independent short, a music video and a VW commercial. During that time Rosetta Stone Pictures continued to seek out investors to fund the list of projects in development. Continuing to face the up hill climb, Bauer quotes, “The frustrations of the independent filmmaker is overwhelming and the sacrifices we have to make are many, but, our burning passion for the dreams we've carried with us our whole lives, helps us to fight for their survival as they continue to dwell in the deepest part of our soul. It takes a lot of courage and grit to stay in the game.”
Bauer produced and directed a comedy short entitled “The Song” that played at several independent film festivals, and has won awards for two of her films at the 2003 Northwest Alabama Film Festival. Bauer produced a Volkswagen commercial and has also produced and directed a music video for New Zealand artist Helen Henderson. In 2005 Bauer launched Rosetta Stone Music where she produced the first record for the label entitled “SOUTH” which also features Henderson.
In 2003 Ms. Bauer relocated to North Alabama to develop and scout locations for Rosetta Stone Pictures first feature film entitled A SENSE OF PEACE, a story that begins in a small southern town in the late 1940’s and ends in 1968. A story that takes place during the tumultuous times of the civil rights movement as it follows the life of young Charles Taylor and his struggles to be accepted by both blacks and whites due to his mixed race origin. While Bauer’s efforts to secure funding did not manifest in Alabama, she met and developed a deep friendship with the famous award winning photojournalist Charles Moore who photographed the Reverend Martin Luther King and many of the historic events of the civil rights movement. The stories that Mr. Moore shared with Ms. Bauer lead to several re-writes on the script for added authenticity. The project has been re-located to New Orleans and will begin pre-production in mid January with a 2009 release date.
In 2005 Bauer launched Rostta Stone Music producing her first record for the label entiltled, "South, Muscle Shoals Revisted" also featuring singer/songwriter Helen Henderson.
The record was recorded at the famously known Fame record studio, featuring some of the finest musicians in the U.S.: Doug Pettibone (Lucinda Williams, Jewel), David Hood (Etta James, Aretha Franklin, John Hiatt, Duane Allman, Rod Stewart), Brian Owings (Shelby Lynne, Tony Joe White, Buddy Miller), Larry Byram (Steppenwolf), Spooner Oldham (Bob Dylan, Neil Young, JJ Cale, Linda Rondstadt, Jewel).
Bauer has also written five screenplays and continues to develop them into feature films.
PHYLLIS LARYMORE-KELLY
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER
Phyllis Kelly is president of Larrymore-Kelly Associates, a successful Hollywood entertainment and literary management firm, representing rising and select star acting talent for film, television, and theatre, literary artists, directors, recording artists, and key film crew. She is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Theta Alpha Phi National Honor Dramatic Fraternity, Who
Phyllis Kelly has also been film producer for
Who’s Who Among Business Leaders of America, The National Council of Negro Women, The Conference of Personal Managers, and Alpha Psi Omega Dramatic Fraternity. Ms. Kelly, an honors graduate in Performing Arts, has received many accolades and an ‘NAACP Theatre Award Nomination as Producer” for Yolanda King’s “Achieving the Dream,” recipient of 8 NAACP Theatre Award Nominations. Among the depth of some mentionable celebrity representation include Yolanda King (first-born child of Coretta Scott King & Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., “Ghosts of Mississippi,” “JAG,” “Strong Medicine”), RaéVen Larrymore Kelly (“Buffy,” young Tina Turner-“What’s Love Got To Do With It?” “I’ll Fly Away,” “A Time to Kill”), Verneé Watson-Johnson (“Fresh Prince of Bel Air,” “Desperate Housewives,” “Antwone Fisher”), Dr. Tonea Stewart (“A Time to Kill,” “The Rosa Parks Story”), Judi Ann Mason (award-winning playwright & screenwriter), Art Evans (“Die Hard 2”), Nick LaTour (Broadway, Film & TV actor), Taurean Blacque (“Hill Street Blues”), Frederick B. Owens (“Smokey Joe’s Café”-orig. cast, “Hitch”), Sparkle (recording artist), HB Barnum (music producer, composer), and others.“Deep In My Heart,” showcased at the International Cannes Film Festival 2000 and featured again in Special Selection at Cannes 2001, directed by April Scott-Goss, starring RaéVen Larrymore Kelly and Wendell Pierce (“Waiting to Exhale,” “Malcolm X,” “HBO’s The Wire”). Ms. Kelly has been producer on the film short, “State of Mind,” with writer-producer, Alain Raymond, starring RaéVen Larrymore Kelly, and has received some of the highest recognition in Steven Spielberg’s sponsored competition “On The Lot.” Ms. Kelly has also been producer on the award-winning indie-film “Redemption,” from director, Fernandel Almonor. She has also been a producer on the short films, “Angel’s Door,” directed by Nicole Parish, and “Silas Lynch.” Casting a much larger production, Ms. Kelly was also executive producer and director of the family dramedy spectacular of a legendary circus, “Tha Bamalamashubang!” As writer, executive producer, and director of “A Slave’s Cry,” Ms. Kelly successfully toured this production throughout southern California.
JUDY SHANNON SIZEMORE
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER
Judy Sizemore has worked with Rosetta Stone Pictures for four years assisting Ms. Bauer in all areas of development. Mrs. Sizemore began her career as an educator in American and Southern history. She then continued her career serving as field representative for Alabama congressman Bud Cramer (AL-05). Mrs. Sizemore worked along side the writer Rose Bauer lending her expertise to add authenticity to the dialog and 'isms' of southern culture.
CHARLES HEYDEN
PRODUCTION OFFICE COORDINATOR
Charles Heyden has been successful in the business world in the area of sales and administration. He brings to Rosetta Stone Pictures his unique talent for locating the appropriate matches of persons and resources to suit this film project.
He attended Hunter College in New York City and majored in English. He brings adroit communication and organizational skills to Rosetta Stone Pictures with a flare for making timely observations on all matters pertaining to integrity of plans and goals.
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