What's It About?
The White Rose is a short film thriller about three college journalism students assigned an investigative reporting project after their professor relays the story of the White Rose – a Nazi resistance movement by German college students in 1943. Frank, inspired by the resistance story, dismisses his classmates’ investigation of restaurant health violations as trivial. He sets out on his own to uncover government wrongdoing … but goes too far.
Who's In It?
Barry Corbin in the role of Professor Albett
Barry is an Emmy Award-nominated actor whose long career includes work in dozens of films and TV shows. His film credits include his first break in Urban Cowboy with John Travolta, Stir Crazy, War Games, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Lonesome Dove, and No Country for Old Men.
Barry is well known for the role of astronaut Maurice J. Minnifield in CBS’s Northern Exposure. He has also been in shows including One Tree Hill, Anger Management, and Modern Family, and is currently recurring in Netflix’s The Ranch with Ashton Kutcher, Debra Winger and Sam Elliot.
Brando Eaton in the role of Frank
Brando was born in Los Angeles and started acting at the age of 5 when he started doing school plays, and he never stopped. He can be seen in films like Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper, Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, Woodlawn, and Balls Out: Gary the Tennis Coach.
He has made numerous TV appearances including Nickelodeon’s Zoey 101, MTV’s Awkward, and ABC’s The Secret Life of the American Teenager. Brando was nominated for the Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series award at the 2010 Screen Actors Guild Awards for his role of Jonah Mitchell in Showtime’s Dexter.
Reinaldo Zavarce in the role of Peter
Reinaldo is an award-winning Venezuelan actor and singer well known as a regular on TV shows like Nickelodeon’s 11-11: En mi cuadra nada cuadra and Isa TKM which is referred to as Latin America’s High School Musical. He hosted the Nickelodeon Latin America coverage of the 2012 US Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards with Will Smith.
His film credits include the role of Miguel in the feature film Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha with James Franco.
Amanda Erickson in the role of Beth.
Amanda is a wonderful actress who has been acting on the stage since she was a child. She received a BFA in Theatre in 2012 and has since been acting on stage and screen. Her TV credits include Dallas, NCIS: New Orleans and the upcoming ABC pilot Broken. She was featured in the film I Saw the Light, starring Tom Hiddleston.
You also may have seen her in national TV commercials for Tostitos and Chevrolet.
Leslie Merrill in the role of News Anchor
Leslie Merrill has appeared in film, television, news, commercials, and has hosted national award-winning nature documentaries.
Her film credits include The Next Three Days starring Russell Crowe and On the Inside with Olivia Wilde.
Her TV credits include a recurring role in the Lionsgate television series, The Kill Point, on Spike TV and she played an MSNBC reporter in NBC’s pilot Salvation.
Robb Hudspeth in the role of John Branoff
Robb earned a B.F.A. in Cinema from Southern Methodist University and completed the Professional Acting program at KD Conservatory.
He is a founding member of Lone Star Comedy, the groundbreaking improv troupe and a member of TBell Actors Studio Masters Class. His TV credits include the role of Paulus Van Der Sloot in Murder Made Me Famous, and the role of Mark in Deadline: Crime with Tamron Hall.
His film credits include Carter High and Blood Reunion 3: Hunters. He was also in award-winning films including Sleep Now in the Fire, Rockin’ Reverend and Road Less Bongoed.
Todd Gable in the role of Director Stropen
Todd has been in several Dallas films including Pros and Cons: A Fantasy Football Movie, The Splinter Cell, Grim and Why.
His TV credits include FX Network’s American Horror Story, USA Network’s In Plain Sight, and The Anti-Social Network with Mary McCormack.
Who Are We?
Scot Michael Walker – Writer/Director/Executive Producer
He has won numerous awards for the feature film, Rockin' Reverend and the short film The Holly King. He alsocreated the award-winning web series, Delphis; and won an award for a 48-hour film race short, Road Less Bongoed. Scot has brought us a great script for The White Rose that has attracted some very well known talent.
James Crawford – Producer
James has been writing and producing films in the North Texas region for several years. His credits include The Out and Outs starring Jonathan Bennett which won Audience Choice at the 2014 Seattle Shorts Film Festival and Top 20 at the 2014 Louisiana Film Prize; TheSound of Trains, which won Top 20 at the 2013 Louisiana Film Prize and was featured on the ShortsHD television network, and Jackdaw which won Top 5 at the 2015 Louisiana Film Prize.
Chuck Hatcher – Director of Photography
Chuck is a talented cinematographer whose career spans more than two decades. His accomplishments include award-winning work on music videos, commercials, TV shows, documentaries and feature films. Among the awards are CMA Video of the Year for the music video I Think About You for the artist Collin Raye and a Special Jury Award from Worldfest Houston for the music video Who Needs You Baby for the artist Clay Walker.
His feature film and TV credits include: Cinematographer/DP on ID: Don’t Look In the Basement 2, Charlie: A Toy Story, and Pearl. DP on several Discovery Channel shows including The New Detectives and The FBI Files, and2nd Unit DP on Children of the Corn IV.
Perks!
Here are photos of the different items we are giving away with your contributions!
11" x 17" Movie Poster - Glossy
Mouse Pad
Tote Bag
Coffee Mug
Baseball Cap
White T-shirt
Where's The Money Going?
It costs a lot of money to create a film! The White Rose is a SAG-AFTRA film and everyone is being paid, including the extras. We have some fantastic locations including a college campus that costs $100 per hour. We need the set catered for 4 days. We are using cinematic lenses on a RED Epic Dragon camera to make it look fantastic, grip truck, and the perk merchandise costs about 15-25% of each contribution. And the ultimate goal is to get this film into a few great film festivals, which all require submission fees.