ROSILYN HELLER (Producer) With her unique ability to discover new talent, producer ROSILYN HELLER has helped develop, produce and distribute the work of some of the most important executives, directors, writers, and actors working in Hollywood today. She began her motion picture career as a creative executive for Palomar/ABC Pictures in New York before moving to Los Angeles to join Peter Guber at Columbia Pictures as a production executive. At Columbia, she became the first female Vice President of a major Hollywood studio, serving under studio heads Peter Guber, David Begelman, Stanley Jaffe and Danny Melnick. Among the many award-winning films she developed and supervised are Taxi Driver, Julia, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and The China Syndrome. Heller then became an independent producer at Columbia where she executive-produced the feature Ice Castles. She went on to produce Who's That Girl, starring Madonna, for Guber-Peters at Warner Bros., American Heart, starring Jeff Bridges, for Avenue/World Pictures, and The Beans of Egypt, Maine, starring Martha Plimpton, Kelly Lynch and Rutger Hauer for American Playhouse Films. For Guber-Peters Entertainment, Heller served as executive vice president when the company was housed at Warners’, later moving to Kings Road Productions in the same position.

In addition to her feature films, Heller produced the six-hour NBC miniseries, Celebrity, based on the novel by the late Tommy Thompson, and several television and cable movies, including Callie & Son, starring Lindsay Wagner and Michelle Pfeiffer; The Killing of Randy Webster, starring Hal Holbrook, Dixie Carter, Sean Penn and Jennifer Jason Leigh; and the Lifetime movie Better Off Dead with Mare Winningham, produced with her friend and creative partner Gloria Steinem. Heller currently has numerous features at various stages of development and pre-production. She has also written a number of screen adaptations, among them The Gilded City, to be directed by Academy-Award-winning Production Designer, Eugenio Zanetti, at Fox Searchlight; Fathers & Sons, based on the Ivan Turgenev novel and to be directed by Michael Hoffman; and a true World War II coming-of-age story, The Defiant, based on the book by Shalom Yoran and to be directed by award-winning German director Tomy Wigand (The Flying Classroom) and executive produced by Roland Emmerich. Recently she completed an original romantic comedy, Poles Apart. Before her career in the motion picture industry, Heller held various positions in New York publishing, including senior editor for New American Library.