Richard R. Roller
Dear Prospective Ally,
Welcome to our Tour. From here now, or later from the MENU above, I invite you to consider our four PARTICIPATION options and/or learn about WHY US? Also, if you’ve not already done so, I think you’d enjoy watching either or both of our completed video projects that follow, which you can do from the Project Videos section in the MENU.
‘Java Time Online’s 1st Evening with Friends’ is our 60-minute pilot episode for an ongoing series of web-based variety shows that blend the experience of our ancient fireside past, when we came together to commune with and entertain each other, along with the expanding possibilities of the world-wide-web-of-us.
The series is intended as a calling card for our Company, it’s writers and our wide range of projects and, it might, also, attract sponsors with embedded advertising. With the proliferation of Zoom, and other similar platforms, the shows could become – ‘Java Time Online’s Evenings with Friends... Around the World.’
‘Between the Cracks,’ our 70-minute documentary, will take you into the world and bitter-sweet lives of a rag-tag community of ‘houseless’ people, functioning & dysfunctioning together under a bridge in the San Fernando Valley in the City of ‘Lost Angels.’
Having once been homeless myself, many years ago in Venice Beach, the Bridge People trusted me and my small production team to become a part of their world and tell their stories.
We are a hybrid entity, seeking to embody the best of for-profit and not-for-profit organizational models. If you become inspired by what follows, and would like to discuss becoming one of our Profit Sharing Patrons, an Angel Backer and/or an Active Participant, email me and we’ll arrange a time to talk.
Life is a Co-Creation!
Richard R. Roller
Richard@FriendShipProductions.org
Our Wheel of Good Fortune
Historically, the pyramid, with its top-down structure, has represented the corporate business model with the CEO/President in an overseeing and controlling position at the top of the pyramid.
Our business model is a Wheel, at the center of which is the Head Writer/CEO, initially, our founder, Richard. The spokes will connect the Head Writer with each of the primary departments such as: Administration – Tech – Research – Marketing – Public Relations – Social Media and Legal, etc.
The Wheel model makes communication more inclusive and establishes a stronger sense of fellowship among the writers and support team members.
Our Wheel of Good Fortune
art by
Evan Waltmire
Our Team
Richard Roller
Founder/CEO/Head Writer
Richard’s entrepreneurial career began at the age of twelve when he opened a dog grooming business in his family’s garage. He attracted so much business that his mom agreed to handle the bookings for his pampered canine friends.
While attending a small Catholic High School in Burbank California, he wrote and secretly sold poems to his football teammates. Though he doesn’t remember the team ever winning a game, the habited-nuns were so very proud of their ‘poetic jocks.’
Diane Rowland
Technical Director
& Financial Manager
Diane graduated Summa Cum Laude from Cal State Northridge with a BS Degree in Electrical Engineering. She now has over thirty-six years of high-tech real world experience.
Diane was an associate editor and co-producer for our Between the Cracks documentary.
Recently, she was the solo editor and co-producer of our pilot episode of Java Time Online’s Evenings with Friends, a world-wide-web variety series.
Gail Blair
Executive Administrator
Gail has a background of over 40 years as a corporate/real estate paralegal, a realtor and business owner. She worked for several prestigious law firms, including over 25 years with her mentor, one of the country’s premier tax attorneys.
She also worked for one of the oldest, most respected international entertainment law firms handling the corporate matters of some of the biggest names in the industry.
David Zasloff
Talent Coordinator/Consultant
David is an entertainer’s entertainer. As a gifted actor, comedian, multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, composer, writer, producer and director, he knows how to recognize talent.
Due to his many years in entertainment, he brings with him a long list of entertainers and business entrepreneurs.
David co-wrote and directed our pilot episode of Java Time Online’s 1st Evening with Friends. As the show’s host and performer, his comedic and musical talents were a wonderful addition.
Bill Weber
Art Director
An award-winning graphic, publication, and product designer, Bill has designed for Broadway, film, television, and magazines. His Broadway credits include work on the musicals Smile, Jean Seberg, and That’s Not Tango. For film, Bill has designed for I’ll Be Next Door for Christmas, Avocado, The Happy Side, and other independent films. For TV, Bill was Executive Producer for Music City Tonight’s Salute to Children’s Entertainment and has developed a number of educational media concepts. In the publishing world, Bill designed for magazines in the parenting, entertainment, and
advertising industries.
Stephen Bittrich
Webmaster/Tech Consultant
Stephen has been creating websites for private clients for 15 years. Before delving into the world of websites he developed a strength in graphics and layout after having spent many years working with textile designs for the fashion industry in New York City.
He also has a background in video editing and production and has created and produced several short films and web series. He looks forward to bringing his skills and background as a fully engaged Friend Ship support team member.
A Sampling of Our Projects
Java Time Online’s Evenings with Friends
Conceived & Produced by Richard Roller
The pilot episode was directed by David Zasloff and edited by Diane Rowland.
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Our Evenings with Friends are intended as an ongoing series of provocative and entertaining variety shows for the web. This calling-card project has the potential to attract millions of Friends of the Company, providing income for the Company and for artists whose work will be represented under the Company umbrella.
Our intent is to combine the feel of an ancient fireside gathering of friends entertaining each other, with the expanded possibilities of the world-wide-web-of-us.
The series also has income possibilities from national and international sponsors who appreciate our content and marketing possibilities for their products or services.
Note: At the end of this Tour, there is a Link to watch the pilot episode of our 1st Evening with Friends. This can also be accessed immediately through Project Videos in the MENU above.
Between the Cracks – A Completed Documentary
Produced by Richard Roller & Diane Rowland. Directed by Richard Roller.
Edited by Diane Rowland & Sean Salas.
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Between the Cracks is our 70-minute documentary about a community of ‘houseless’ people, functioning & dysfunctioning together under a bridge in the San Fernando Valley in the City of ‘Lost Angels.’
It’s about the lives of these people and the growing epidemic of our fellow humans, including children, living on the streets. Through streaming this film on the web for free, it has the potential of being seen by millions around the world, linked to us as Friends of the Company.
Note: At the end of this Tour, there’s a Link to watch the documentary. This can also be accessed immediately through Project Videos in the MENU above.
The Modesto Messiah – A Completed Screenplay
Story by Richard Roller. Screenplay by Richard Roller & Greg Bell.
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The Modesto Messiah is a biographical feature film screenplay about the Rebel Reverend Kirby J. Hensley, founder of the controversial mail-order religion, the Universal Life Church (ULC).
Since 1959, the ULC has ordained over twenty million free-thinking people, including just a few such notables as The Rebel Reverend Tom Hanks, Jimmy Kimmel, Jeff Probst, the Beetles, the Rolling Stones, Dwayne Johnson (aka ‘the Rock’), Courtney Love, Barbara Streisand, Norman Lear and even the former head of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover.
Kirby and the ULC were condemned by the mainstream religions, the Internal Revenue Service and tax collectors as a bogus religion, and Kirby as a con man.
His battles, on behalf of himself and the ULC, go all the way up to the Supreme Court of California, where the Justices decreed: “The government cannot determine what constitutes a valid religion for, if it were to do so, it would violate the 1st Amendment, guaranteeing the separation of church and state.”
Note: At the end of this Tour, there are three links for The Modesto Messiah. One to watch a promotional video, one to read the first pages of the screenplay, and one to request a copy of the completed script. The video can also be accessed immediately through Project Videos in the MENU above.
Forbidden Marriage – A Completed Screenplay
Story by Richard Roller. Screenplay by Richard Roller & Greg Bell.
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Forbidden Marriage is a fictional screenplay about Mason Andrews, a reporter with the Los Angeles Times. Mason is dealing with personal demons, failed relationships, and the struggles of a recovering alcoholic.
He reluctantly agrees to cover the trial of Lehi Brewster, a Salt Lake police officer who has lost his job and is on trial for being married to two women.
Mason is curious to find out how polygamous men manage to have successful relationships with two or more women, at the same time, when he hasn’t been able to do so with one.
In the midst of the trial, a busload of San Francisco gays, lesbians, transvestites and transgenders arrive to support marriage equality for all.
To say the least, they are not well-received; especially by the ultra-conservative, religious polygamist families who have come out to support Lehi and their right to marriage equality.
Forbidden Marriage raises the bar on the question: Who should or should not be allowed to marry?
Note: At the end of this Tour, there are three links for Forbidden Marriage. One to watch a promotional video, one to read the first pages of the screenplay, and one to request a copy of the completed script. The video can also be accessed immediately through Project Videos in the MENU above.
Peace Pilgrim – A Completed Screenplay
Story by Richard Roller. Screenplay by Richard Roller & Greg Bell.
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The Peace Pilgrim story is our screenplay for a biographical feature film about the life of Mildred Norman who became dissatisfied with her materialistic life, and deeply concerned with the discord in the world.
After much searching for a way of devoting herself to a greater good, she found her answer. On the first of January, 1953, she stepped out in front of the Rose Parade, and began a 28-year pilgrimage as ‘Peace Pilgrim.’
Without a penny in her pocket, and with endless faith, she walked over 40,000 miles throughout the North American Continent on behalf of inner peace and world peace.
Peace Pilgrim, a true spiritual warrior, touched the hearts and minds of many thousands along her journey. She often said, “Overcome Evil with Good, Falsehood with Truth, and Hatred with Love.” When asked, “What is new about that?” her answer was, “There is nothing new in the words, but what is always new is the living of them.”
Note: t the end of this Tour, there are three links for Peace Pilgrim. One to watch a promotional video, one to read the first pages of the screenplay, and one to request a copy of the completed script. The video can also be accessed immediately through Project Videos in the MENU above.
Laugh for Life – Adventures with The Laugh Squad
A promotional video for a cable series. Produced & Directed by Richard Roller.
Co-Produced & Edited by Diane Rowland.
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Doctor Madan Kataria, a physician in India, is the founder of Laughter Yoga International. He began the first Laughter Yoga Club in Bombay to prove his theory that “Laughter really is the best medicine.” There are now over 8,000 Laughter Clubs throughout the world.
The Laugh for Life series would follow the playful, healing and life-affirming impact of Jeffrey Briar’s merry squad of laughers, ages 18 to 81, as they bring healing joy into teen detention centers, prisons, battered women’s shelters, senior centers and schools.
Note: At the end of this Tour, there is a link to enable you to watch our promotional video for the series. This can also be accessed immediately through Project Videos in the MENU above.
Twelve Steps to Freedom
A Spiritual Social Solution for Self-Inflicted Suffering
By Richard Roller
This e-book is close to completion. It’s a primer to be sold and distributed on the web. This book could easily go viral with the millions of participants in the more than twenty-five twelve-step fellowships that have spun off from Alcoholics Anonymous.
Our founder, Richard, once weighed around 350 pounds. He has been active in Overeaters Anonymous and other twelve-step fellowships for more than 25 years, and is maintaining the loss of well over 125 pounds.
Twelve Steps to Freedom would have appeal to persons already in one or more of the twelve-step fellowships. It would also be of value to family members, or anyone interested in seeking a non-religious, spiritual/social solution for their own addictions, or to achieve a better understanding of their addicted loved ones.
Personal stories of recovered and recovering cross-addicted persons, in more than one of the twelve-step fellowships, are to be added.
Note: At the end of this Tour, there is a link to read the current draft of Twelve Steps to Freedom.
God for Non-Believers – Implications from What we Think we Know
By Richard Roller
This book in development will illustrate parallels between ancient mystic teachings and present-day scientific knowledge and speculations.
It will point out some of the implications and questions these and other largely agreed-upon truths suggest.
God for Non-Believers may be an inspiration to lead the reader from being a dogmatic religious believer, atheist or agnostic, into having an awe-filled sense of an Infinitely Universal and intimately Personal presence of Infinite Co-Creative Intelligence from where we came, where we live, and to which we return.
Looking for Will – My Bardic Quest with Shakespeare
A Completed Book
By Greg Bell
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This haunted book chronicles Greg’s lifelong, poetic journey through the ghosts of the past heading toward William Shakespeare.
Author and Shakespearean actor Greg, Richard’s longtime writing partner, calls himself an “archaeologist of the invisible.” In the preface, he admits to digging up the past. Then he creates a plan.
He does so through the use of poetry, free verse, blank verse, Shakespearean sonnets and even a few excerpts from his solo play, Alms for Oblivion, in which Bell conjures up the Bard of Avon. Be prepared for paranormal phenomena!
Late Bloomers – Stories of People who Prove – It’s Never Too Late!
By Richard Roller with Gail Blair
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This planned documentary is based on a poem written by Richard entitled: ‘A World Economics Survey.’ This project would take the viewer back to the time when currency replaced barter as our primary means of exchange and forward into the defunct ‘Gold Standard’ and, now, full circle into the ‘Agreement Standard.’
The film would show how money/currency/energy operates globally in the present, and how we may evolve our understanding of and use of it in the future, based on the evolution of our collective consciousness.
4 Song Tracks
Note: You can listen to any of the four songs now or later on the Links Page at the end of our presentation, or by using the Music/Songs Link on the Menu Bar above.
Ian Roller's GENR8R Group
Over It
MUSIC FOR PEOPLE
Ian Roller's GENR8R Group
Over It
MUSIC FOR PEOPLE
Ian Roller's GENR8R Group
Over It
MUSIC FOR PEOPLE
Ian Roller's GENR8R Group
Over It
MUSIC FOR PEOPLE
Participation Options
Project Links
The links below are for some of the multimedia projects and project blueprints of our content creators. The materials are proprietary to Friend Ship Productions & Publishing and/or the individual writers.
The project Links are included only for the purpose of this presentation and, without prior permission, are not to be shared, separate from this presentation, on personal, business or social media sites, or in any other form of communication, written, oral or electronically forwarded.
Java Time Online’s Evenings With Friends (60 mins)
Pilot Episode
Between The Cracks (70 mins)
Documentary
The Modesto Messiah (30 mins)
Promo Video | First Pages of Script | Full Script Request
Forbidden Marriage (42 seconds)
Promo Video | First Pages of Script | Full Script Request
Peace Pilgrim (8 mins)
Promo Video | First Pages of Script | Full Script Request
Laugh for Life – Adventures with the Laugh Squad (19 mins)
Promotional video
Twelve Steps to Freedom (28 pages)
Read Current Draft
Four Song Tracks
(1) Sunday Song from Brainard & Russell’s album ‘Life in Java‘
(2) Hey! What’s Really Happening from Peter Demian’s album ‘Paloma Serenade‘
(3) African Lullaby from David Zasloff’s album ‘Born to Be Happy‘
(4) Over It! from Ian Roller’s GENR8R group album ‘Music for People‘
Why Us?
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A Special Thanks for Paul Sherman,
Our Co-Founding Friend & original Web Designer,
who recently passed away.
