Rosemary Rawcliffe

Born in the northwest of England during the World War Two years, Rosemary Rawcliffe relocated to London where things were happening during the Swinging Sixties, and started her career in television and later film by working in the BBC costume department where she was in regular contact with stars such as John Gielgud and Judi Dench.After the BBC would not let her graduate to making her own shows and films, she first worked as an assistant at the rival independent channel ITV and then started her own production company.She then moved to the United States in 1989, where, developing projects in New York, she found her birth family in Virgina. (She never knew her father who was an American serviceman in Europe.)Beginning a study of Buddism as part of a spiritual transition, she focussed on the role played by women in the Tibet area and made several documentaries on that topic.Her production company in Berkeley, California is a non profit called Frame of Mind.