our vision
“To always be a women-owned multimedia production company
devoted to producing diversity-focused projects as inclusion innovators.”
About Us
Individually and together, Mindy Rosario and Paula Mitchell Manning have produced over 60 productions in film, radio, television, theater, podcasts, and webisodes. Now, this pair of seasoned producers have joined forces and formed a company they appropriately call Seasoned Pros Productions.
MINDY ROSARIO
Mindy approaches producing from an audience’s point of view. Ms. Rosario started in the entertainment industry in NYC, acting on Broadway and in TV and film. Her producing expertise covers television, film, theater, podcasts, and webisodes. With her multiple skills, Mindy also combines a marketing background with her experience in front of and behind the camera and footlights.
Mindy has won 63 film festival awards for producing and co-writing Therapy, including Tribeca and Cannes International. Therapy is currently in development as an anthology series for The Orchid/Sony Studios.
Most recently, she finished her second season as a producer on the award-winning Black/LGBTQIA+ talk show The House for Fox Soul.
For over 25 years, Ms. Rosario has recruited and interviewed people for motion picture market-research projects and focus groups. In the course of this work, she acquired knowledge of demographics and diverse film genres, including faith, independent/low-budget, family, and drama, for nearly every studio in Los Angeles (Universal, Disney, Sony, and Columbia, to name a few). She is a creative producer who connects with attendees and asks an audience what they want to see, not what she expects them to see. This enables her to envision any project through different eyes.
PAULA MITCHELL MANNING
Paula Mitchell Manning’s “superpowers” as a producer are her abilities to use creativity, organizational skills, resourcefulness, and a special knack for assembling gifted talent behind and in front of the camera – and to work in harmonic unison to breathe life into a project. Paula understands it’s essential for a producer to acknowledge and cherish the “we” factor and ensure everyone is recognized for contributing to a production’s success.
Paula cut her teeth in radio, launching her producing career at Los Angeles station KOST-FM. Manning executive produced a radio documentary, The Names Project, that won a “Golden Mike” Award from the Radio & Television News Directors Association.
This led to a position as a staff writer for an ABC Television sitcom and co-writing the independent film LALA: Uncut, which screened at the Cannes Film Festival. Manning created, co-wrote, and produced a film festival-circuit fan-favorite short, Bringing Up BayBay, starring Debra Wilson.
Expanding to theater, Manning wrote and produced the multi-award-nominated musical Flirting with Morty and won an NAACP Theatre Award as “Best Producer” for the production Butterflies of Uganda: Memories of a Child Soldier.
Paula continues creating, producing, and writing projects ranging from TV pilots to documentaries and films.
IN Development
Film
JACK AND THE EMPRESS
A torrid tale of love, loss, and redemption.
Character-driven drama inspired by the toxic love story of music’s original “Bad Girl”
Bessie Smith, and her “Bad Boy” soulmate, Jack Gee.
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To get a feel for “Jack and The Empress” check out the VIDEO LOOKBOOK
MIGHTY REAL
A biopic on Disco “Queen” Sylvester, the first LGBTQAI+ African American singer to
stand up, be fabulous, and be proud of it!
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Flirting with Morty
What happens when a woman’s greatest hope for life is to be kissed by the Angel of
Death?
Adapted from the multi-award-nominated musical.
Lucha Libra Massacre
A horror film with the Lucha Libra masked man at the center of it
Cha-Cha City
A caper-comedy about two Latin men who only want to win a salsa contest but
accidentally find themselves with mob money. What will they do?
TELEVISION
Rodriguez and Son
A dramedy revolving around a Puerto Rican father and son who own a variety store-type of Botanica, which specializes in Santeria in Brooklyn, NY, and the crazy neighbors who are their customers.
CPR (CHILD PERFORMERS RESURRECTION) TALENT
What happens when the world refuses to allow you to grow up? Alison has been locked in a role she played as a child actor – until she unexpectedly inherits her father’s talent management company.
Up Close – And Too Damn Personal
What happens when an aging, overly ambitious woman entertainment reporter is willing to use any means necessary to boost the slipping ratings of her low-level Access Hollywood-style TV show?
BScapades - The Misadventures of Bohana and Santiago
A hilarious, raucous, half-hour scripted comedy series led by the not-too-bright Bohana (Garth Sodetani) and Santiago (Alexandro Rosario) – (think a Puerto Rican and Hawaiian type of “Dumb and Dumber”), leading us into their absurd, surreal world and bumpy roads of misadventures.
"In conjunction with Kujofilm"
Trashy Ratsy
An animated children’s series teaching the arts.
Those Were the Days
A docu-series that shares stories from actual survivors of historical events so they can pass down the truth to future generations.
Auto Angels
A half-hour sitcom about female auto mechanics.
in Post-Production
My Name is Terry
A documentary of Terry Umemoto and her life before, during, and after her family’s internment at Heart Mountain Internment Camp during World War II.
“In conjunction with Kujofilm”
