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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.
No longer interested in working freelance on projects
that were uninspiring in order to just make a living, Bauer decided
it was time to focus on her own projects. In 1992, Bauer formed Rosetta
Stone Pictures and worked for several years trying to get her own
scripts produced. Bauer quotes, “The
frustrations of the independent filmmaker is overwhelming and the sacrifices
we have to make are many, but we have so many hopes and dreams and we want
more than anything to bring our ideas alive cinematically. It takes a lot
of courage and grit to stay in the game.”
By 1994 Bauer was already
exhausted from the process and decided to take time off from her
film endeavors in order to re-group. Soon she opened the Rosetta
Stone Gallery in Los Angeles featuring 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 three years I
had to get back to putting my projects out there again.” Bauer give
away the Rosetta Stone Gallery in order to focus her efforts once again
on developing projects for Rosetta Stone Pictures. By 1998 Bauer was in
full force with a new enthusiasm.
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.
Bauer has also written five screenplays and intends to spend her life developing
them into films.
In 2003 Ms. Bauer re-located to Florence, Alabama in order
to get serious in her efforts to develop her 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. Bauer is now preparing to produce and
direct the film A SENSE OF PEACE in Shreveport Louisiana and Memphis,
Tennessee with a 2008 release date.
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’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?,” Adelaine-“I’ll
Fly Away,” Tonya Hailey-“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 actor, “God’s
Favorite”-Eugene O’Neil Theatre, “The Bible Experience,”),
Taurean Blacque (“Hill Street Blues”), Frederick B. Owens
(“Smokey Joe’s Café”-orig. cast, “Hitch”),
Sparkle (recording artist), C. Kelly Wright (Broadway singer, performer),
HB Barnum (music producer, composer), and others.
Phyllis Kelly has been producer, casting director, and co-director
for the celebrity-performed, stage adaptation of one of Judi Ann Mason’s
more recent screenplays, “Motherland,” currently in development. She
is also a producer on the film in development, “G-Ball,” written
by Judi Ann Mason, based on the amazing inspirational, successful career
of Grambling University’s Coach Eddie Robinson and the football
legends he generated from his powerhouse. Ms. Kelly has also
teamed as a producer with Judi Ann Mason’s “Miss Rhythm – The
Ruth Brown Story,” a film musical drama in development, based
on the colorful life of the international music diva, crediting her
association with Atlantic Records as “The House that Ruth Built.” Phyllis
Kelly has been producer on the film short, “State of Mind,” with
writer-producer, Alain Raymond, starring RaéVen Larrymore-Kelly. This
film continues to receive 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. Casting a much larger production,
Ms. Kelly was also executive producer and director of the successful
run of the family dramedy spectacular of a legendary circus, “Tha
Bamalamashubang!” starring several celebrity talents. Similarly,
she was executive producer and director of the holiday theatrical production
of “Merry Christmas Crawfords.” As writer, executive
producer, and director of “A Slave’s Cry,” Ms. Kelly
locally toured this successful production throughout Southern California. In
addition, Ms. Kelly was producer and director of the Atlanta-area local
tour of “Harriet Tubman, The Second Moses.” She also
was producer and director of the Los Angeles area productions of “The
Young Poets” and multiple staged music and acting talent showcases
for presentation to major Hollywood agents, artistic directors, casting
directors, producers, and studio executives.
As an entertainment manager, Ms. Kelly is behind the molding and shaping
of star careers, as she has successfully done with her daughter, RaéVen,
whom “JET Magazine” featured on one of its covers as the “Hottest
child stars on TV and in the Movies.” Likewise, a 1999
issue of “Black Enterprise” featured Phyllis Kelly and
lauded her efforts as “an entertainment manager on the road to
success in Hollywood while holding onto the morals of integrity and
loyalty.”
Providing a continuing source of multi-racial talent, supplying the
film, television, and theatrical industry, Ms. Kelly maintains constant
interactions, working intricately with major television and film studios,
casting directors and producers. Shows such as Desperate Housewives,
Grey’s Anatomy, Days of Our Lives, Hannah Montana, American Dreams,
The Closer, Hidden Hills, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, CSI, The
Practice, The Shield, ER, Living Single,Roc,Any Day Now, Touched By
An Angel , Friends, Sweet Justice, City of Angels, I’ll Fly Away,
Any Day Now, JAG, Roseanne, Ghosts of Mississippi, A Time to Kill,
Antwone Fisher, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, Grumpier Old
Men, Waiting to Exhale, Big Momma’s House, Freedom Song, Lillie
In Winter, Fallen,Constilation, Ned’s Declassified,
Strong Medicine, and The Young and the Restless are only a sample of
projects that Ms. Kelly has secured for her represented talent. Through
her key audition techniques of script analysis and emotional preparation,
Ms. Kelly, a prominent acting coach, continues to teach both private
and group lessons.
Additionally, Phyllis Kelly has been a producer on another awarded
independent film, “Deep In My Heart” (based on the true
story of the effect of the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on
a girl, her surroundings, and her family), directed by April Scott-Goss,
starring RaéVen Larrymore-Kelly and Wendell Pierce (Waiting
to Exhale/The Gregory Hines Show) which was showcased at the International
Cannes Film Festival 2000 (as one of only five films from the U.S.
in its category) and was selected again to be featured at Cannes 2001.
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