Biographie
Romell Foster-Owens has been in the business of producing, writing and directing high quality, award-winning television series, made for TV movies, documentaries, and independent feature films for more than 20 years. Ms. Foster-Owens is a graduate of the prestigious American Film Institute where she majored in Film Directing and San Diego State University where she majored in Theatre Arts and Television Production and is the President of Jowharah Films.
In 2009 Ms. Foster-Owens was selected to participate in the Producers Guild of America's Diversity Workshop. Two films Ms. Foster-Owens produced, Native New Yorker and Pins And Needles have the rare distinction of being accepted as Official Selections of the 2008 Cannes Film Festival.
In 2008 Ms. Foster-Owens produced the award-winning films Stitches, Seems Like Yesterday and the documentary, Hollywood At Its Best. The Gang Alternatives Program PSA, which she produced for Women In Film, won the 2008 Platinum AURORA Award for "Best In Show" and a Bronze ADDY Award. The Women In Film PSA she produced, wrote and directed for the City Ballet of Los Angeles will be released in 2009. In 2004 Ms. Foster-Owens was selected as a producer to participate in Robert De Niro's Tribeca Film Festival's esteemed Tribeca All Access Program.
Ms. Foster-Owens has produced and written more than 200 hours of television programming and five television series, including the Emmy Award-winning television series Teen Scene and Motorsports Mania. She is a Creator and Executive Producer of the Reality TV series, Alakazia: The Robin Hood Of Fashion in association with ShedMedia and Seahorse Entertainment LLC, Producer and Writer of both the 2008 Hollywood Stuntwomen's Awards and the 2008 Women's International Film & Television Showcase Awards (TheWIFTS) which honored the producer of Terminator, Gale Anne Hurd among others.
As a filmmaker, Ms. Foster-Owens has won numerous awards, which include an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Feature Film Direction for her direction of the feature film, The Three Muscatels as well as the Black Filmmaker's Hall Of Fame Award for Best Independent Film for More Than A Game, which she wrote, produced and directed and the National Council of Christians and Jews Humanitarian Award for Rights Of Passage: An African American Female Experience, which she Executive Produced. Ms. Foster-Owens is currently developing a Slate for Jowharah Films which includes the feature films, Forever Yours, Ave' Blue, One Millionth Man, Natives and reality TV shows Rallye Star and Underground Divas, plus the screenplay adaptations of the award winning novels, The Jungle Warriors and Colored Waiting Room which she will produce and direct.
Ms. Foster-Owens is a member of the Gang Alternatives Program Board of Directors, The Women's International Film & Television Showcase Committee, a founding Board Member of the Diamond In The Raw Foundation, a former Board Member of the Center for Advance Film Studies at The American Film Institute and is an active member of Women In Film and the Alliance of Women Directors.
