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Ernest D. Rose

Santa Rosa, CA

retired filmmaker & college dean

Tags: authoring  education  ethics  political/social issue documentaries  the documentary career  tutorials  workshops, seminars & classes  

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Title/Occupation:  Arts Administrator  Consultant  Producer 

Services Provided:  IDA Member Benefit  Seminars/Workshops 

Gender: Male

Race: Caucasian/White

Citizenship: USA

Languages Spoken: modest working knowledge of 7 foreign languages

Brief Message to Members: Available to assist IDA members who might benefit from my experience as a documentary producer, author, educator, and appraiser of non-fiction media materials. (See resume below)

Biography: BACKGROUND Ernest Rose was born 82 years ago in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He served in the Naval Air Corps during World War II, and after studying at Penn State and UCLA, earned a B.A. degree in Design and one of the first Masters Degrees in Motion Pictures from the University of California. He began his professional career while still in graduate school working part-time as a newsreel cameraman. During the early 1950’s, after a brief period at Paramount Studios, he headed a U.S. State Department film unit based in Iran, and over the past five decades has traveled and worked in much of Southeast Asia, the Middle East, both Eastern and Western Europe, North Africa, Latin America, the Far East, the South Pacific and Australia. He has worked on more than 200 films, 28 of them being honored at national and international festivals such as Venice, Edinburgh, Tokyo and Vancouver. His work as a writer, a director, a cinematographer, an editor (and film teacher) has at one time or another enabled him to share for a brief period the life and experience of . . . a Navajo shaman performing a nine-day ritual healing ceremony, several convicted murderers serving life terms in the maximum security block at San Quentin prison, a Middle Eastern ruler just prior to his flight from the throne amid revolution, a mosaic muralist during the design and creation of a major art work, a 14-year-old boy slowly dying of leukemia, hordes of rioters battling with police in Sri Lanka, a Swiss expert in the field of bank security and a Hong Kong smuggler working for the notorious Triad, a 26-year-old welfare recipient living with her six children in an urban slum, the Queen of one of the last remaining Polynesian empires, a veteran fire department arson investigator tracking down a suspected pyromaniac, a crusty old New Hampshire carpenter who disassembles and faithfully reconstructs historic building facades for the Smithsonian Institution, a dowager Main Line matriarch reflecting upon the changes that have occurred in upper class society during her lifetime . . . and on, and on. While on leave from his position as a professor at UCLA in the late 1950’s under a Mass Media Fellowship from the Ford Foundation, Rose earned the first Ph.D. ever granted by Stanford University in a special program combining advanced studies in the fields of political sociology, cultural anthropology, social psychology, international relations, and communication theory. During his distinguished teaching career in film he has served on the faculty of six universities in the U.S. and four abroad. For almost a decade he was also a university administrator serving as the dean of a large liberal arts college (encompassing 52 different fields of study) in Pomona, California and as dean of the College of Fine Arts at the University of New Mexico. From 1963 to 1968 Dr. Rose headed the film and television production units of the Statewide University of California (based in Berkeley) where he was responsible for a number of grant projects involving productions on three continents. Professor Rose has been awarded four Fulbright Senior Fellowships (Vienna - 1972, Jerusalem - 1973, Czechoslovakia - 1989 and Malta - 1995) and in 1976 was one of the three founders of the 9,000 member Fulbright Association. He has taught or lectured in the Republic of China, Malaysia, the Philippines, Japan, India, Australia, Turkey, the former USSR, Iran, Yugoslavia, Poland, Norway, France, Honduras, Trinidad and Colombia. Rose has a modest working knowledge of seven foreign languages. His scholarly writing appears in nine books and in many academic journals. He has served on the board of several international agencies and was president of the major professional society in his field. Since retiring from the academic world in January 1993, the Roses have made their home in Santa Rosa, California where he indulges his passion for early music (covering the thousand year period before the time of Mozart). During 1997 & 1998 Dr. Rose was called back to Washington to serve as a documentary film consultant and an expert witness working with the U.S. Department of Justice. In that capacity he was called upon to appraise the dollar value of the famous 8mm camera-original movie taken by Abraham Zapruder of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, and to help resolve a dispute involving the government’s right to keep the original film in the United States National Archives.