Ms. Rotondi is an archival film, photo, network news, headlines & articles researcher with 25+ years of experience.  Ms. Rotondi believes at the heart of any successful documentary is solid research.

Rosemary works with local, nationwide and international archives. Her wide range of experience includes working for HBO’s documentary BAND OF BROTHERS: WE STAND ALONE TOGETHER (2001) to the documentaries OUR NIXON (2013), TEENAGE (2013), MAKING THE BOYS (2011), and Academy Award-nominated documentaries REGRET TO INFORM (1999) and INSIDE JOB (2010) among others. INSIDE JOB by Charles Ferguson was awarded an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2011.

“The archival footage is the foundation of the film so before we even figured out what story we were going to tell, we started doing archival research and that process was led by an extraordinary researcher named Rosemary Rotondi and she worked with a team of researchers in Washington DC, Germany and England. And basically, we gave her a vast, expansive list of topics when we started working together and she returned an incredible amount of footage. From there, it gave us a sense of the scope of what we could cover - what periods we could cover, what storylines that were yielding results and then would refine that list and go further and get more material.”
Matt Wolf, director of TEENAGE,
Eye for Film, January 31, 2014 interview

“The archival riches, as well, cannot be overestimated
(crack New York-based archival researcher,
Rosemary Rotondi, really outdoes herself).”
BERLINALE ‘10 WRAP-UP’, a 2010 festival review

"Assiduous research ... also unearths some
amazing archival material."
The Village Voice, March 9, 2011 issue

"I also worked very closely with our chief archival researcher, Rosemary Rotondi, who is first rate."
Crayton Robey, in an interview with
Nick Orlando's column, TalkinBroadway.com

Rosemary served as the lead researcher on Matt Wolf's documentary TEENAGE, which opened this spring at The Landmark Sunshine Theater, NYC. The film will then travel throughout the USA. An excerpt of the movie was featured in The New York Times T-Magazine online on March 11, 2014.
teenagefilm.com/
teenagefilm.com/archives/directors-diary/making-teenage/
teenagefilm.com/seethefilm
timeout.com/us/film/teenage
indiewire.com/article
facebook.com/photo
eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2014-01-31-teenage-interview

Rosemary performed archival news and interview research for Penny Lane's documentary, OUR NIXON, that was produced with rediscovered Super 8 home movie footage filmed by the president’s closest aides. The film has been acquired by CNN FILMS and CINEDIGM and was broadcasted August 1, 2013, on CNN. The film screened at the IFC Center, August 30 thru September 25, 2013.
cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com
nytimes.com/2013/07/28/movies/our-nixon
nytmovies&seid=autoifccenter.com/films/our-nixon/

Three critically acclaimed documentaries on which Rosemary served as researcher premiered last year in The Tribeca Film Festival 2013: Matt Wolf's TEENAGE; The Stevens Company's HERBLOCK: THE BLACK AND WHITE; and LET THE FIRE BURN by Jason Osder.

On January 27, 2014, Michael Steven's new film, HERBLOCK: THE BLACK AND WHITE, had its broadcast premiere on HBO at 9:00 pm EST.
hbo.com/#/documentaries/herblock-the-black-and-the-white
herblockmovie.com/trailer

LET THE FIRE BURN was listed as No. 7 on POV's The Best Documentaries of 2013.
pbs.org/pov/blog/2013/11/the-best-documentaries-of-2013

In the Summer 2013 issue of Documentary Magazine, Rosemary was interviewed in “The Past is Never Dead” article written by Ron Deutsch.

CURRENTLY IN THEATERS OR CABLE TV

HERBLOCK: THE BLACK AND WHITE
January 27, 2014: Broadcast premiere on HBO

HEY BARTENDER
July 2014: Broadcast premiere on SHOWTIME

I ALWAYS SAID YES: The Many Lives of Wakefield Poole
July 12, 2014: OUTFEST, Los Angeles
July 28, 2014: NEWFEST, New York

UPCOMING SCREENINGS

BETTIE PAGE REVEALS ALL
2014: National Rollout and Worldwide Distribution

TEENAGE
2014: National Rollout

[ See Resume ] [ View Highlights of Credits ]

Hiring an archival researcher is an
indispensable investment.

Experienced researchers add considerably to the quality of a documentary, film, commercial or video art tape. A skilled researcher is able to identify and evaluate imagery, better matching the visuals to your requirements. An adept, skilled researcher saves a client money and time.

An experienced researcher knows how to access sources more quickly. Just as important, researchers bring with them talents as visual assessors. Accurate research fleshes out a documentary, enriching it. One also avoids receiving prepackaged visual images, a system which accounts for the high incidence of documentaries sharing similar themes often utilizing the same archival footage.

Using an inexperienced intern or in-house assistant to do an experienced researcher's work can result in lower quality and less access to material due to lack of experience. This will have an impact on the entire production.The experienced archival researcher brings an individualized focus to your work in order to get you the best footage or photograph available, as quickly as possible, on deadline — and within your budget. Experienced researchers such as Ms. Rotondi also enjoy "preferred vendor" relationships with the archives with whom they work.

Be it for a historical or contemporary documentary, a skilled researcher is necessary and a worthy investment.