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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