Roland Park Pictures
Company type | Private |
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Industry | Motion pictures, Television |
Headquarters | New York, New York |
Owner | Elizabeth Holder Xan Parker |
Number of employees |
Roland Park Pictures, Inc. was an independent production company founded by filmmakers Elizabeth Holder and Xan Parker.
Founding
[edit]Holder and Parker had been childhood friends who "really did get their start performing plays on the staircase landing" of Parker's childhood home".[1] They renewed their friendship after college when, during an accidental meeting, they discovered they were both working in the film industry.[1] Parker had worked with Albert Maysles as an associate producer and Holder, who was a production assistant on Hairspray while still a teenager, had directed for Blues Clues.[1] In 1999 they formed the production company, naming it after the Baltimore neighborhood of Roland Park where they'd grown up.[1]
Production
[edit]Roland Park's first film was the 2003 documentary feature Risk/Reward.[1] The film documented the lives of four women working on Wall Street.[1]
Roland Park also produced the documentary series The Hill and the fiction short Weekend Getaway.
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