THE CREW
kerry rock
CASTING DIRECTOR
Rock’s film career began while attending the prestigious New York University Film School. Following graduation, Rock moved to Los Angeles to work for Roger Corman’s New World Pictures, in distribution, acquisitions and foreign sales. Rock then joined Orion Pictures as Production and Acquisitions Executive where she supervised the development and production of feature films such as HOOSIERS and ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS. Rock was then asked to run the US operation of the British based Palace Productions in Los Angeles, as they went on to produce the critically acclaimed MONA LISA and THE CRYING GAME., which was released to record-breaking figures and went on to be nominated for multiple Oscars, winning for Best Screenplay.
Rock produced three films for Palace, SHAG, A RAGE IN HARLEM and HISTORY IS MADE AT NIGHT. One of the more fruitful acquisitions made by Rock, on behalf of Palace’s UK distribution arm, was RESERVOIR DOGS. She then served as Vice President of Acquisitions for Infinity Media Inc., and was in charge of finding feature films for the company to finance and produce. She brought both CAPOTE and SAVED! into the company and helped set up the financing for these films. Rock is credited as Co-Executive Producer of SAVED! (Jena Malone, Mandy Moore and Macaulay Culkin) distributed by United Artists and Executive Producer of CAPOTE (Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Chris Cooper), distributed by Sony Classics. CAPOTE was nominated for five Academy Awards (2006) including Best Picture, and Hoffman won the Oscar for Best Actor. She was then a producer on PUSH (Chris Evans, Dakota Fanning, Djimon Hounsou), which was distributed by Summit Entertainment in 2009. Rock spent four years consulting for K5 International, handling acquisitions out of the United States for them. The company acquired THE VISITOR and GET LOW among others.
Her most current production as producer is GRAVY, directed by James Roday and starring Michael Weston, Jimmi Simpson, Sutton Foster, Gabourey Sidibe and Sarah Silverman. Rock serves as casting director on other producers’ films in her spare time, including THE NEW ROMANTIC –winner of Best First Feature at 2018 SXSW and THE MAGIC LANTERN- chosen to have its world premiere at the 2018 Venice International Film Festival.