Over the past two decades, Rose Custer has produced award-winning film and video work. She has been the recipient of two Nell Shipman Awards for production excellence, two bronze Telly awards as producer/director, and her co-production with KCTS Pike Place Market: Soul of the City, garnered an Emmy Award.
At ShadowCatcher Entertainment, she assisted the production of programming for release within the digital interactive, feature film and television arenas. She has assisted Pulitzer Prize winning script author, Robert Schenkkan and became his researcher for the screenplay ultimately made into the feature film The Quiet American, starring Michael Caine and Brendan Fraser.
She has interviewed Dr. Mehmet Oz on the life-saving benefits of electronic medical records, Ed and Elizabeth Smart regarding her kidnapping and the issues of child sex trafficking and improving law enforcement tactics, and convicted death-row inmate Mitchell Rupe about the controversy of his infamous “too obese to hang” defense against his death sentence by hanging.
Most recently she has freelanced as Producer/Director and Production Manager in feature and commercial film, video, and television, corporate programing and national television commercials. She specializes in field and post production. Her list of Northwest clients include: Microsoft, Trifilm Productions, CR TV, SmashCut, Talking Dog Media, Experience Music Project, The Line Collective, Screaming Flea, and KCTS Channel 9, (the Seattle Public Broadcasting Affiliate).
Born in the Pacific Northwest, Rose identifies closely with both this region and her Italian heritage. She is a frequent world traveler, and is fluent in Italian, having learned the language during stays in the Friuli-Venezia-Giulia region of Italy.
Her passion is documentary filmmaking, and her desire is to use her skills in media production to create projects that make a difference and effect social change.