Patricia Arquette Starring in Comedy Produced by Singer/Songwriter Haroula Rose

Singer-songwriter/screenwriter/director/producer Haroula Rose along with Mary Ann Marino, Sam Bisbee, and Joshua Blum will produce the coming-of-age independent comedy"Permanent" starring Patricia Arquette and Rainn Wilsonare. Executive producers are Todd Wagner, Ben Cosgrove, Jackie Kelman Bisbee, Lance Acord, and Danielle Renfrew Behrens. The film also stars Michael Greene and 12-year-old newcomer Kira McLean. Colette Burson, the creator and executive producer of HBO's "Hung," is directing from her own script. 2929 Productions is financing in partnership with Park Pictures and Washington Square Films.

Earlier this year, Rose released Here The Blue River , her sophomore outing. Jim White, the southern gothic multi-hyphenate, Zac Rae ("sonic whiz" currently touring with Death Cab for Cutie, and who has collaborated with the likes of Alanis Morrisette, Gnarls Barkley, Fiona Apple, My Brightest Diamond, Sara Lov, Pedestrian and countless others), and Luke Top (Fool's Gold, Cass McCombs) were involved in production. "This album took a while not only because I was working on films but also because I was trying to figure out what story I want to tell," Rose explains, "what's most important to me, and how to do that with more dynamic arrangements." Here The Blue River was released with Thirty Tigers/Little Bliss earlier this year. I'm hoping you might consider covering her via album review or feature. Please let me know if you need the music.

The album heralds a sound that has evolved from the traditional acoustic folk of her debut These Open Roads into more developed, full arrangements. Here The Blue is reminiscent of Daniel Lanois' production if he could have worked with Judee Sill or Townes Van Zandt - a couple of Rose's main inspirations for the album. The album title is a phrase from in an Emerson poem entitled "The River" that encapsulates the theme: nothing lasts forever. "This is definitely a relationship record," states Haroula. "It's about how our relationships are also about how we relate to ourselves, to nature, how we are alienated from it, how we seek to understand these mysteries that surround us....how as human beings we create and we destroy things."

As a filmmaker, Rose has either written, directed, produced or acted in a variety of short films, documentaries, and feature films. She wrote, starred in, and wrote music for No Love Song, which co-stars Rosanna Arquette and premiered at the Newport Beach Film Festival. No Love Song, now being distributed by TV4, went to festivals all around the world including Cannes the same year the critically acclaimed Fruitvale Station, a film Rose associate produced and music supervised, was screened there as well. Currently Rose is developing a screenplay adaptation of the much beloved novel Once Upon A River by Bonnie Jo Campbell which Rose will also direct. Rose's script was a finalist for the Nantucket Screenwriter's Colony as well as the Sundance Writer's Lab. In 2015 she was selected to be part of Time Warner's inaugural year for their incubator, Project 150, for which she has created a TV series. She wrote and directed the pilot in which she also appears as a musician. Warner Brothers selected Rose to be part of their Director's Workshop. In the past Rose was a Fulbright Scholar in Madrid, Spain, where she taught music and drama, and she was also selected to be part of Tribeca's All Access program.

Haroula Rose (full name: Haroula Rose Spyropoulos) has released four critically acclaimed records, and many more films and videos. She has toured internationally and her work has been screened at over thirty festivals around the world. Rose went to the University of Chicago for her BA and MA, and attended USC's School of Cinematic Arts for her MFA. She was part of the prestigious Warner Brothers Director's Workshop, Tribeca's All Access Program, and created new content for Time Warner. Rose was also a Fulbright Scholar in Madrid, where she was a writer and educator, and has guest lectured at Cal Poly Pomona, Northwestern, University of Chicago, and Sundance's Film Forward program.

Rose has released two EP's, an LP, several singles, and has been remixed by Kyp Malone of TV ON THE RADIO, The Hood Internet and Fool's Gold. She has garnered much critical acclaim from the likes of Marie Claire, KCRW, Nylon, LA Times, Vice, LA Weekly, NPR, Flavorpill, American Songwriter, The Bluegrass Situation and more. She has had placements in TV series, commercials, and films such as Still Alice, For A Good Time, Call..., How I Met Your Mother, American Horror Story, and Underemployed, among many others. Rose has been a guest DJ on KXLU and music supervised or consulted for films such as Fruitvale Station, for which she was also an Associate Producer. Her music has been compared with the likes of Allison Krauss, Mindy Smith, Emmylou Harris, Suzanne Vega, Dolly Parton, and Jessica Lea Mayfield.

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