Hollywood based producer-photographer Lee Roth worked event coverage on the red carpet for several years covering movie premieres, awards shows, charity events and other celebrity functions. While still working in Hollywood when on assignment, today, Roth has opened a second studio in the mountains of Colorado, with a focus on scenic, glamour and high-end portfolio work for a select clientele.
Over the years, Roth has photographed a who's who of Hollywood's top A-list talent including Catherine Zeta-Jones, Charlize Theron, Sean Penn and Leonardo DiCaprio. Screen legends like Clint Eastwood and Sophia Loren have also posed for Lee's cameras. In recent years, Roth has been honored to be selected for the press corps at the entertainment industry's most prestigious events including the Academy Awards® and Primetime Emmy Awards®. Syndicated worldwide, Lee's celebrity photos frequently appear in such publications as People, In Touch, Us Weekly, Glamour, Harper's Bazaar, Cosmopolitan and other magazines around the globe.
On the technology and production side of things, Lee was heavily involved in many Internet “firsts” in the mid- to late-1990s. Roth was among the first class of 130 people certified by Microsoft at their Redmond, Washington campus as a Windows NetShow Media Developer. Today, Windows NetShow is referred to simply as Windows Media.
Additional firsts included the first live audio/video stream from under US waters to the Net, the first live late night talk show to go live online, the first live Internet shows from the Caribbean islands of Aruba and St. Thomas, and he served as personal WebMaster to one of Hollywood’s leading actor/comedians for more than three years with duties that included chat room host and online moderator. Roth’s first Web site, Adventures Anywhere, went online on June 26, 1995. He has maintained an online presence and remained involved with Web production and streaming media development ever since.
Early in the new millennium, Roth was selected as the stills photographer for an independent movie. This gig awakened a love of motion picture and television production that had been teased with his earlier television and pay-per-view experience in Hollywood, and in the Caribbean.
Roth’s concept for “Glamour Quest TV” came to him in the summer of 2004, when the concept was registered with the Writers Guild of America West. The show was pitched successfully at the National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE) conference in 2005, and Roth was told by no less than three distributors to proceed to pilot.
Personal tragedy struck within weeks after the NATPE conference, and Roth dropped everything to take care of his father in his final days. Afterwards, Roth found it difficult to return to the day-to-day frenzy of working the red carpet, and he retreated to the mountains of Colorado for some personal time off, away from big cities, crowds of people, and cranky red carpet photographers!
Now re-emerging with his new Colorado mountain studios, and a complete production staff in Hollywood, Roth is preparing to return to NATPE 2008 with not only the “Glamour Quest” television show, to be pitched for either broadcast or cable, but also a spinoff show, “Models In The Wild!” which is destined for a cable audience.
The closing months of 2007 are seeing a frenzy of activity as producers circle the shows, and social network communities are seeking Roth’s content and online personality. For infrastructure, an online store has been opened, as well as high-resolution archives for the publishing, advertising and Web design industries. Five of the nine Roth Stock Web sites are undergoing complete overhauls as, for the first time in his career, Roth hands over the WebMastering reins to Dave Ehlert, a fortunate discovery in the mountains of Colorado. This frees Roth up for production related duties for the television shows, as well as allows him to continue to develop commerce, sponsorship and advertising opportunities for Roth Stock Digital Media’s growing network of media properties.
