Roland Park Pictures, Inc. was an independent production company founded by filmmakers Elizabeth Holder and Xan Parker.
Founding
Holder and Parker had been childhood friends who "really did get their start performing plays on the staircase landing" of Parker's childhood home".
They renewed their friendship after college when, during an accidental meeting, they discovered they were both working in the film industry.
Parker had worked with
Albert Maysles
Albert Maysles (November 26, 1926 – March 5, 2015) and his brother David Maysles (January 10, 1931 – January 3, 1987; ) were an American documentary filmmaking team known for their work in the Direct Cinema style. Their best-known films i ...
as an
associate producer
A film producer is a person who oversees film production. Either employed by a production company or working independently, producers plan and coordinate various aspects of film production, such as selecting the script, coordinating writing, dir ...
and Holder, who was a
production assistant
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on ''
Hairspray
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* Hair spray, a personal grooming product that keeps hair protected from humidity and wind
* ''Hairspray'' (1988 film), a film by John Waters
** ''Hairspray'' (1988 soundtrack), the film's soundtrack album
** ''Hairspray ...
'' while still a teenager, had directed for
''Blues Clues''.
In 1999 they formed the production company, naming it after the Baltimore neighborhood of
Roland Park
Roland Park is a community located in Baltimore, Maryland. It was developed between 1890 and 1920 as an upper-class streetcar suburb. The early phases of the neighborhood were designed by Edward Bouton and Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr.
History
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where they'd grown up.
Production
Roland Park's first film was the 2003 documentary feature
Risk/Reward.
The film documented the lives of four women working on Wall Street.
Roland Park also produced the documentary series ''
The Hill'' and the fiction short ''Weekend Getaway''.
References
Film production companies of the United States
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