Rose Pictures is an independent film and television production company based in New York City. 

The company was founded by veteran producer Rose Ganguzza – many of whose films have been made by debut filmmakers including Antonio Campos’ ‘Afterschool', John Krokidas’ 'Kill Your Darlings', Amy Redford’s ‘The Guitar’ and JC Chandor’s 'Margin Call'.

We work on development, financing, through to production. Recent releases include the Julian Fellowes period drama 'The Chaperone' with PBS, the comedy 'Poms', with STX Entertainment, starring Diane Keaton and Jacki Weaver, and 'Fatima', with Sonia Braga and Harvey Keitel, distributed by Picturehouse US and now on Netflix.

Other films include 'New York, I Love You', 'The Romantics', 'The Words', and 'Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You', along with a number of documentaries, including 'Blue Gold: American Jeans', 'Trashed' and 'New York at the Movies'.

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‘In Every Dream Home’: Dominique Jackson, Gaite Jansen, David Arquette & Louisa Krause To Star In Drama — Cannes Marché

EXCLUSIVE: The Yellow Affair is launching world sales on drama In Every Dream Home for the Cannes Marché du Film. The UK/U.S. co-production is set to star Dominique Jackson (Pose), Gaite Jansen (Peaky Blinders), David Arquette (Scream) and Louisa Krause (Billions).

‘Balaban’ To Shine A Light On Kazakhstan’s 2006 HIV Scandal – Deadline 

EXCLUSIVE: Indie international feature Balaban has wrapped principal photography in Kazakhstan.

The coming-of-age drama is inspired by true events in 2006, when one hundred and sixty infants were infected with HIV as a result of tainted blood transfusions, administered in four public hospitals in the country. The story hones in on two Kazakh teenagers who devise a plan to steal a prized Balaban falcon to help fund their dream of moving to Paris.

Aysulu Onaran makes her feature debut on the project, which she scripted with Sam Roffey. Adilet Yessimov produces with Poms and Fatima producer Rose Ganguzza aboard as executive producer.

EXCLUSIVE: Indie international feature Balaban has wrapped principal photography in Kazakhstan.

The coming-of-age drama is inspired by true events in 2006, when one hundred and sixty infants were infected with HIV as a result of tainted blood transfusions, administered in four public hospitals in the country. The story hones in on two Kazakh teenagers who devise a plan to steal a prized Balaban falcon to help fund their dream of moving to Paris.

Aysulu Onaran makes her feature debut on the project, which she scripted with Sam Roffey. Adilet Yessimov produces with Poms and Fatima producer Rose Ganguzza aboard as executive producer.

Rose Ganguzza, the New York producer of summer release Fatima, has unveiled a Rose Pictures development slate that includes new work from the directors of How To Build A Girl and Grudge.

Ganguzza, a veteran of the independent space whose producing credits include Margin Call and Kill Your Darlings, has partnered on the content pipeline for 2021 with Max Born, a producer The Devil All The Time, and Jake Alden Falconer, a producer on summer horror film 1BR.

As Fatima – the film released by Bob and Jeanne Berney’s Picturehouse – ranks in the top two DVD drama purchases on Amazon following a US summer drive-in tour and PVoD launch, Ganguzza is busy lining up a development and production fund to support her slate and future titles.

Coming up for 2021 is Claire Van Kampen’s (Broadway’s Farinelli and the King, Nice Fish) feature debut It Never Entered My Mind, a drama about the abstract expressionist painter Elaine de Kooning and her fellow artists Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner.

The project, based on Cathy Curtis’s biography, A Generous Vision, is expected to shoot in New York City in spring, pandemic allowing. Ganguzza has the blessing of the artist’s estate and production will be based in Elaine de Kooning House in East Hampton, and will also shoot in Brooklyn and Greenwich Village.

The slate includes Mary’s Monster from Coky Giedroyc (How To Build A Girl, Harlots, The Hour), which will explore how Mary Shelley battled her demons and wrote Frankenstein, based on a screenplay by Deborah Baxtrom. Production has been earmarked for the UK and Italy.

Nicolas Pesce (The Eyes Of My Mother) makes his follow-up to 2020 horror remake Grudge with The Paradox Man, based on Ray Bradbury’s sci-fi story The Toynbee Convector.

Roman Nights will focus on playwright Tennessee Williams and his muse and acclaimed Italian stage actress Anna Magnani, based on the off-Broadway play by Franco D’Alessandro. Fatima director Marco Pontecorvo will direct.

Rounding out the slate are psychological thriller Ever There, which is targeting a Wales shoot and hails from a screenplay by David Caudle based on the Pied Piper operation to evacuate British children during the Second World War; and an adaptation of Marco Tiano’s horror books La Bambinaia (The Nanny) that is being eyed as a potential franchise and will see back-to-back production on the first two entries in Sicily.

“Assembling a slate of films during a pandemic is very complicated, but we are enormously excited to announce these thought-provoking and dramatic stories that we are developing,” said Ganguzza. “We look forward to jumping into production as soon as safety precautions allow.”

Alden-Falconer added: “In Rose Ganguzza, Rose Pictures has a tireless stalwart of emerging talent, working with new filmmakers behind such films as Afterschool to Margin Call to Poms. We are excited to continue this tradition with our 2021 slate.”

Rose Pictures is expanding into television and will announce further details soon.

Sonia Braga Plays Holy Nun In 'Fatima'

Growing up in Brazil's southern municipality of Maringa, noted international actress Sonia Braga recalls a prediction her beloved grandmother (who also was her godmother) shared with her. "You are going to be a saint," her grandmother declared. For young Sonia, it was a surprising, almost frightening, pronouncement.

Fatima movie review & film summary (2020) | Roger Ebert

Fatima takes belief seriously, but it takes humanity seriously too.

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'Fatima' Review: A Religious Miracle In Portugal A Century Ago Gets An Inspired Retelling For Today

Faith-based films, as they now are known, have been a staple of the movie industry almost from the moment it began. But the movement toward more contemporary stories of faith differs from Hollywood's past infatuation with religion and period movies from The Song of Bernadette to The Ten Commandments to The Story of Ruth to a blockbuster like The Passion of the Christ.

Beautiful 'Fatima' has faith in the children who said they saw the Virgin Mary

You don't necessarily expect to see Harvey Keitel pop into a movie about the Marian apparitions seen by three small children in 1917 Portugal, but there he is, clad in black, cloaked in skepticism and asking tough questions about Our Lady of Fatima. Spoiler alert: Keitel's Nichols isn't an early 20th century Portuguese detective.

'Fatima' Review: Faith-Based Movie Seeks Contemporary Lessons in Century-Old Miracle

In 1952, Warner Bros. released a version of "The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima " that boasted, "To the best of human knowledge, and according to the testimony of 100,000 witnesses ... This Is A True Story!"

'Fatima' represents a test for a different kind of faith-based movie

"Fatima" represents a polished cinematic contemplation of religion, focusing on a century-old event that encompasses World War I and possesses a sobering connection to the Spanish Flu.

Will 'Fatima' Bring Religion Back To The Movie Mainstream?

Will the movies ever let religion back into the mainstream? It doesn't seem likely, given the secular bent of most critics, festivals, and film awards. But the question could certainly occur to any thoughtful viewer of Marco Pontecorvo's Fátima, which is set for release by Picturehouse in theaters and via PVOD on Aug.

Picturehouse's 'Fatima' Going Into Theaters & PVOD At End Of August

Bob and Jeanne Berney's Picturehouse will open Marco Pontecorvo's in theaters and direct to home (PVOD) throughout North America on Aug. 28. The pic was last scheduled for an Aug. 14, 1,000-theater-plus run. The distributor has been having sold out pop-up drive-in previews recently as part of their grassroots word-of-mouth digital marketing campaign.

'There's going to be no rules': Hollywood tests new ways of releasing movies in a pandemic

Since the advent of the blockbuster, Hollywood followed a rigid rule book for how to release movies to the public - put the film in as many theaters as possible, and give theaters full exclusivity before people can see it at home. But amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the old practices have given way to a free-for-all of experimentation.

Harvey Keitel talks newest, a real-life story of religious sightings

A real-life story of faith, now a movie, is of a young girl who in 1917 claimed sightings of the Virgin Mary. Two cousins with her also swore to seeing the Holy Vision. The children claimed a prophecy that prayer would lead to an end to World War I.