Louise Rosen

Louise Rosen is a media executive with over 20 years experience in the international television and film business, project development, production and distribution.

Louise has been at the front lines of business development and deal-making as the world of international television expanded into today’s range of cable, satellite, digital and terrestrial services. She has worked with a wide range of program genres and formats and set up international co-productions and pre-sales involving as many as 19 territories in the same project. 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, has been praised as "an American with US tempo and a European soul" and speaks fluent French.

She has taken an active role in many productions, overseeing all aspects of development including research, editorial and budgeting, location production, offline and online. Her experience includes project and personnel management, team building and administration, all aspects of marketing and publicity, and the full range of business affairs. She has been honored to have among her projects Oscar, Emmy, Sundance, Prix Italia and International Emmy winners such as ANNE FRANK REMEMBERED, TROUBLESOME CREEK: A MIDWESTERN and NUREMBERG. Another recent production, Lucia Small’s MY FATHER, THE GENIUS, won Grand Jury Prizes for Best Documentary and Editing at last month’s Slamdance Festival.

Louise is a credited co-producer on several projects, including both the documentary and IMAX films currently in wide release on Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctic Expedition, titled THE ENDURANCE and SHACKLETON’S ANTARCTIC ADVENTURE respectively.

THE ENDURANCE is an international co-production Louise established between White Mountain Films, WGBH, Channel 4/UK, Telepool/Germany, SVT/Sweden and Discovery International and was presented to great reviews at the 2000 Telluride Film Festival, then selected for this year’s Sundance Film Festival, among many others. It recently opened theatrically in New York and is now showing in more than a dozen cities in North America, after receiving the coveted National Board of Review’s award for Best Documentary. The separate 40-minute IMAX film premiered in February 2001 at New York’s Museum of Natural History. It is currently being seen across North America and in cities throughout Europe including London, Munich, Berlin and Paris.

In the 1970’s, Rosen 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.

Louise has been a featured speaker at conferences and film festivals, including The Real Screen Summit, Toronto’s Hot Docs Film Festival and the Puerto Rico International Film Festival. She has served on the board of directors of organizations such as the International Documentary Association and Women in Film & Video/Boston.