About Us

Reid Rosefelt (CEO) is a veteran film publicist based in New York City. He has promoted hundreds of films, mainly through the two companies he founded, Magic Lantern, Inc. and Reid Rosefelt Publicity.  He has handled release publicity for Jim Jarmusch, Pedro Almodovar, Errol Morris, Ang Lee (on “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”), Guillermo del Toro, Werner Herzog, David Mamet, Rebecca Miller, John Sayles, The Polish Brothers, Alan Rudolph, Eric Rohmer, Jean-Luc Godard, Andrei Tarkovsky, Agnès Varda, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Wim Wenders, John Boorman, Tom DiCillo, Steve James, Hal Hartley, Todd Solondz, Lisa Cholodenko, Jim McKay, Ed Harris, Michael Almereyda, John Dahl, Fred Schepisi, Paul Schrader, and Walter Salles, among others. His personal clients have included Errol Morris, The Sundance Institute, The Independent Film Channel, InDigEnt, HBO Films (Oscar Campaign for “Maria Full of Grace”), Kino International, Magnet Media, Harvey Keitel, Ally Sheedy, Cynthia Nixon, and the late Adrienne Shelly. His production publicity credits include “Desperately Seeking Susan,” “The Milagro Beanfield War,” “The Naked Gun,” “The Godfather: Part III,” “1492: Conquest of Paradise,” “Six Degrees of Separation,” “Ghost Dog,” and Lee Daniels’ “Precious,” which is shaping up to be one of the biggest movie events of the year.  Mr. Rosefelt  wrote about his experience working on "Precious"  here.

San Francisco-based Bob Harris (Co-Founder) has worked for over fifteen years creating network/web-based systems for some of the world's leading corporations, universities, banks, and health organizations. His clients have included Bank of America, Wells Fargo Bank, Charles Schwab & Company, McDonalds, Lucent Technologies, the University of California (San Francisco & Santa Cruz), the University of Wisconsin (Madison), and Centers for Disease Control (CDC). After studying French and History at the University of Wisconsin, Harris followed up interests in microcomputer technology and finance by studying Electrical Engineering at the Milwaukee School of Engineering and earning his B.S. in Business Administration at Golden Gate University in San Francisco while working as a Trust & Estates Banker at Bank of California. He initiated the bank's first mainframe to PC data interface. Later on, while serving as Project Controls Adminstrator at Parsons Brinckerhoff, Harris wrote his own project management software for planning and design phases of large transportation infrastructure projects like highways, bridges, and light and heavy rail. Realizing that he enjoyed programming more than the exclusively business aspects of his work, he founded his own company, Corporate Objects, in 1991, and began a successful consulting career designing and building custom data-driven financial and project management systems.

Ben Amada (Lead Developer) has spent the last 10 years creating database driven applications for small to medium businesses.  These web and desktop based applications range from smaller add-ons to enterprise level applications relied on daily to run entire businesses.  Ben's strengths lie in applying the best parts from both traditional and cutting-edge technology to create robust applications which assume most or full responsibility of key business processes.  His prior and current experiences with numerous 3rd party application programming interfaces (APIs) has proven to be valuable in growing SpeedCine's database of movies.  While many software development opportunities are available to strong application developers in today's online world, Ben continues to keep his active client base to a small number, allowing him to focus on building software solutions tailored to fit each I.T. need.

Richard Abramowitz (Consultant) is President of Abramorama, a consulting firm that serves the film industry in the production, representation, marketing, and distribution of independent films. His recent distribution projects include Sacha Gervasi’s “Anvil! The Story of Anvil,” Jonathan Demme’s Toronto entry “Neil Young Trunk Show,” and John Turturro’s “Romance and Cigarettes.”  Abramowitz was a co-founder of the independent distribution and production company Stratosphere Entertainment, where he released such films as “The Thief,” “Hideous Kinky,” and  “Xiu Xiu.” While President/COO of RKO Pictures Distribution, Abramowitz handled The Shooting Gallery’s acclaimed first feature, “Laws of Gravity.” Prior to that, as a senior executive at Cinecom Entertainment, he distributed Merchant-Ivory’s “Room With a View,”  John Sayles' “The Brother From Another Planet” and “Matewan,” Jonathan Demme’s “Stop Making Sense” and “Swimming to Cambodia,” and Tom Stoppard's “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead,” among many others.  Abramowitz has also produced several films and most recently served as executive producer on “Robert Blecker Wants You Dead” and on “The GoodTimesKid.”

Laura Orlowski (Information Processor) has been a Student Loan Counselor since 2005 and is currently pursuing an Associates of Arts and Sciences degree from the University of Wisconsin with hopes of eventually earning a Bachelor's degree in Psychology. She brings skills in technical writing, editing, data entry, training, and a broad knowledge of today's pop culture to SpeedCine's development.  Laura resides in Madison, Wisconsin with her husband and young daughter.

Laura Schlecht (Information Processor/Publicity Assistant) comes from the production end of entertainment world, having worked on television commercials, music videos and viral content.  A graduate of Fordham University, she is using her production background along with creative agency-side marketing experience, to work on information upkeep and publicity assistance for SpeedCine.