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Rosa was
born and grew up in Barcelona. In 1983 she started working
in the newly created Catalan television, TV3, producing over
100 hours of music and arts programmes, including the award-winning
Arsenal. She left in 1987 to start a production company
with director Manuel Huerga, producing documentaries and pop
promos.
Wanting
to move into feature films, Rosa took part in the first EAVE
seminar of the Media Programme (1988-89). As a result, in
1990 she produced Boom Boom directed by Rosa Vergés.
The film was selected for the Venice Film Festival and for
the Montreal Film Festival. Awarded the best Catalan film
of the year, it also won the Spanish Goya award as the Best
First Film.
She then
produced two films starring Carmen Maura: Felix Rotaeta´s
Chatarra, which was the only Spanish entry in the 1991
Venice Film Festival and won the Special Quality Award from
the Spanish Ministry of Culture, and Sur la Terre Comme
au Ciel (1992) by Marion Hansel, which was selected for
the Berlin Film Festival. In 1994, she produced Souvenir,
Rosa Verges' second feature.
During
that period, she also produced various documentaries and short
films, including Quien Mal Anda, Mal Acaba, which won
Best Short Film at the Montreal Film Festival, and line produced
Barcelona by Whit Stillman.
From 1991
to 1995 she sat on the board of ACPCA (Association of Catalan
Producers) and of FAPAE (Spanish Federation of Producers Associations).
In 1995
Rosa moved to London and has line produced several films,
amongst them, Robert Rylands' Last Journey by Gracia
Querejeta, The Sea Change by Michael Bray with Ray
Winstone, and Presence of Mind by Antoni Aloy, starring
Sadie Frost, Harvey Keitel and Lauren Bacall. She also worked
in Carla's Song by Ken Loach as assistant to Sally
Hibbin, and production managed the Spanish shoots of Plunkett
& Macleane by Jake Scott and Kevin and Perry Go
Large by Ed Bye.
In 2001
she was Production Manager on Mike Figgis' Hotel shot
in Venice with an all star cast, and Line Producer on the
Newcastle set romantic comedy The One and Only, produced
by Leslee Udwin.
Since
then she has line produced three films for director Roger
Michell and producer Kevin Loader: The Mother (2003)
written by Hanif Kureishi, Enduring Love (2004) based
on Ian McEwan's novel, both starring Daniel Craig and Venus
(2006), also written by Hanif Kureishi with Peter O’Toole
in the lead role.
Other
films she has worked on are Michael Winterbottom's Code
46 (2003) - shot in Shanghai, Dubai, Jaipur and London
with Tim Robbins and Samantha Morton, Alpha Male (2005),
by Dan Wilde with Danny Huston and Jennifer Ehle and Severance
(2006) a horror film shot in Hungary and the Isle of Man,
directed by Chris Smith with Danny Dyer.
Rosa speaks
English, Spanish, Catalan, French and Italian
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