Biography
Louise Rosen is a media executive with over 25 years experience in the international television and film business, project development, production and distribution.
She has worked with a wide range of program genres and formats and set up major international co-productions. Her reputation as a talent-spotter has grown steadily, built upon her association with numerous award-winning projects. Louise was based in Europe for 8 years and has particular interest in the cross-cultural aspects of television/film.
She has taken an active role in many productions; overseeing research, editorial and budgeting as well as location- and post-production. Her expertise also includes management, operations, marketing and business affairs. She has been honored to have among her projects Oscar, Emmy, Sundance, Prix Italia, International Emmy and other award-winning films.
In the last decade, Louise has specialized in non-fiction work. Current projects she is representing include Emmy and Oscar nominee Arthur Dong's new film Hollywood Chinese, premiering at the 2007 Toronto Int'l Film Festival, The Price of Sugar from Uncommon Productions, selected for the IDA's DocuWeek Showcase, and So Much So Fast from West City Films, selected for competition at Sundance 2006 (a PBS/BBC/ZDF-ARTE co-production). Projects in post production include Secrecy, from Peter Galison and Robb Moss already selected for a major film festival, BLAST (selected for the 2007 HotDocs TDF) from Paul Devlin, producer/director of PowerTrip, and Killer Poet from Northern Light Productions. Highlights from projects currently in production include Northern Light's Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison with Cash historian and bestselling author Michael Streissguth acting as co-producer, and Crazy Wisdom from award-winning filmmakers Johanna Demetrakus and Lisa Leeman on the life and teachings of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, widely recognized as the most influential figure to bring Tibetan Buddhism to the West.
Louise is also a credited co-producer on several projects, including Prodigal Sons, (a CBC/Canada, BBC "Storyville", Sundance Channel co-production selected for the 2007 HotDocs TDF) about "a brotherly rivalry between a man and a woman and Orson Welles", Sir! No Sir! on the active-duty GIs who protested the Vietnam War, Holy Water-Gate: Abuse Cover-up in the Catholic Church, and from Unity Productions Foundation Cities of Light: The Rise and Fall of Islamic Spain (produced in association with ZDF/ARTE, YLE/Finland, Al Arabiya-03 Productions and SBS/Australia), which premiered nationally on PBS August 22. She is also co-producer of both the documentary and IMAX films on Sir Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic expedition, titled The Endurance and Shackleton Antarctic Adventure respectively.
Louise is a Masterclass Lecturer and Tutor each year at Discovery Campus Masterschool and has been a featured speaker at conferences and film festivals, including The Real Screen Summit, Toronto's Hot Docs Doc Forum and National Association for Latino Independent Producers. She has guest lectured at Emerson College in Boston and served on the board of directors of organizations such as the International Documentary Association and Women in Film & Video/Boston. In the 1970's, Louise worked in other areas of the media including industrial and commercial film production, various aspects of the music business (with Grateful Dead Records and her own music management and booking agency) and in radio advertising sales with Westinghouse Broadcasting and others.
