Martin Rosen (director)

Martin Rosen is an American film, television and theater director, producer and writer. Rosen is known for the animated adaptation of Richard Adams's Watership Down. He is founder and owner of film/theater company Nepenthe Productions.

Career

Rosen started as the producer of the Canadian feature, A Great Big Thing in 1968 and later co-produced Ken Russell's film version of Women in Love (1969), which won Academy Awards for Glenda Jackson (actress) and Billy Williams, (cinematography). He made his directorial debut in Watership Down in 1978, which he also produced and wrote the screenplay for. This was the first of two novels by Richard Adams he adapted. In 1982 he also produced, directed and wrote the screenplay for another animated feature based on a Richard Adams novel, The Plague Dogs. Rosen produced Smooth Talk in 1986, which won the Sundance Grand Prize. His last film as director was Stacking in 1987, and his last project as producer was the Watership Down TV series in 1999.

Rosen has also contribuated on theater production, he was the originating producer of Michael Weller's Moonchildren first presented at London's Royal Court Theater before transferring to the US. He was the originating producer of Maxine Hong Kingston's "The Woman Warrior" presented in association with The Brekeley Rep, Boston's Huntington Theater, and the Doolittle Theater in Los Angeles.

As of 2011 Martin Rosen has secured film/TV rights to Watership Down and is currently negotiating a remake.

Rosen currentley resides in Ross, California.

Credits

Films

• A Great Big Thing (1968) (producer)
• Women in Love (1969) (co-producer)
• Watership Down (1978) (Director/Producer/Scriptwriter)
• The Plague Dogs (1982) (Director/Producer/Scriptwriter)
• Smooth Talk (1986) (producer)
• Stacking (1987) (Director/Producer)

Theater

• I, Frederick'
• The Women Warrior
• China Men'
• Hallam's War

Television

• American Playhouse (1987) (Director/Producer: Stacking)
• Watership Down: The Series (1999-2000) (Executive producer)

External links

• Martin Rosen at IMDb
• Nepenthe Productions