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Drawing Angel Screens

Hollywood Black Film Festival

Friday June 6, 2008

www.hbff.org

Roz to be honored as

Emerging Filmmaker

by

Black Arts Film Alliance

Wilmington, North Carolina

March 13-16, 2008

Our Award Winning Film

"Drawing Angel"

will screen:

Urban Film Series

Thursday, Feb. 21, 2008

Washington DC

Harlem Stage on Screen:

Aaron Davis Hall

Saturday, March 15, 2008

2pm

New York

Women In Cinema Series

New Yor

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American Theater Magazine, January 2004

returning to the WELL

The ACTOR'S CENTER is an oasis for actors hungry to learn-and survive

Roz Coleman, another Fox Fellow and company member (whose busy career in theatre, film and TV has included Broadway appearences in two of August Wilson's plays under (Lloyd) Richard's direction): "I was becoming afraid of acting.  Afraid of failure.  It's so great to be in a place where you can fail - it's really important. Here you can watch others work, and hear the words of a master.  There's growth that happens when, in a safe environment, you can focus on making the play work, rather than dealing with going in front of the press.  This place is about serving the actor."

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KATHLEEN TOLAN

New York Daily News, Aug. 8th 2003

Young, gifted & black

Performers, designers and artists who are bringing energy and style to New York culture

ROSALYN WILLIAMS, FILM DIRECTOR

Husband-and-wife team Rosalyn and Craig Williams - who met as actors on a movie set - invested their wedding-gift money in a Panasonic digital camera and Apple computers, and in 2002 launched their production company, Red Wall.

Inspired by the maverick spirit of filmmakers Spike Lee and Rebecca Miller, they "are not interested in creating films with lots of special effects," says Rosalyn, 29. "Our films are driven by story, characters and the flavor of New York City." She directs; Craig, 30, writes and produces. Their short films "Allergic to Nuts" and "Driving Fish" have won attention on the film festival circuit. Now in preproduction, their first feature, "Game Night," will star Vanessa Williams from cable's "Soul Food."

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Michael A. Gonzales

January 2003, NHK TV Guide, Largest circulating periodical in Japan

By Jane Horwitz, January 21, 2003

‘Runaway' Ambition

Rosalyn Coleman was intrigued by "Runaway Home" as an actor, but also as a fledgling filmmaker. Now playing the lead in Javon Johnson's new play, at Studio Theatre through Feb. 16, the New York-based Coleman had met the author at playwriting conferences. He'd already sent her a draft of "Runaway Home when Studio cast her as BettyAnn, the fed-up single mother who opts to walk out on her five children.

"She's not walking away from a marriage, she's walking away from her kids," said Coleman of the enormity of BettyAnn's decision. Her favorite line is when BettyAnn says, "I'm afraid of waking up in the morning to find out . . . how those children failed because I failed them."

"To me . . . that really rings true," said the actress. As the script now stands, "there are parts that are easy to play because they ring true and other parts that are hard to play because . . . you have to force them."

Unlike her experience in past new productions, Coleman said she and other cast members had littleinteraction with the playwright. As a lead in August Wilson's "Seven Guitars," she had learned that "a lot of the process of a new play is finding itself. . . . For three years we did 'Seven Guitars' before it came to Broadway. . . . My character changed so much."

Though "Runaway Home" is still a work in progress, Coleman retains hopes of adapting it with Johnson into a film for her and husband Craig Williams's independent Red Wall Productions. Her debut short film was "Driving Fish," and they have others in the works, she said.

Coleman grew up in Columbia and Washington. Her parents took her to see the D.C. Black Repertor Theater when she was little, and she began acting at Howard University's children's theater at age 12 or 13 in a play titled "Mom, I'm Sorry." Her father Don Coleman, recently retired as Howard's provost. She wants to make movies for African American audiences such as the congregation of the People's Community Baptist Church in Silver Spring, where her family worships.

"That's the audience that I would fantasize would see my movies," she said.

 

In addition to acting, Rosalyn Coleman Williams runs a film production company, Red Wall Productions, with several projects in various stages of development.  She wrote and directed the short films Broken, The Starter Marriage Project and Driving Fish, which is currently being developed into a feature film with Affinity Films International.  She recently directed the short film Allergic to Nuts, which is presently in post-production.  Coleman is also producing the feature film Game Night written and directed by her husband and partner Craig T. Williams On a personal note...Rosalyn and Craig, still newlyweds, decided to invest the monetary gifts collected from their wedding presents in their company Red Wall Productions.   Judging by their collective creativity and positive and motivating attitudes, my guess is we'll be hearing a lot from this power duo! TC   www.sistacircle.com , March 2003 by T.C, WHUR-FM morning co-host in Washington DC