Born and raised in New Orleans, Jennifer Fontaine has been in the entertainment industry, both in front of and behind the camera, for over a decade. At 14, Jennifer found her playground in the soundstages of Universal Studios, Orlando and spent most of her adolescence roaming around the backlot vigilantly observing the inner workings of production.

Jennifer’s propensity for realism most recently brought her the role of Louise in Look, directed by the creative indie powerhouse Adam Rifkin, as well as the starring role of Suzie, the bored Orange County suburbanite, in the mocumentary Krush helmed by award-winning director Topher Straus. As the meddlesome private eye Juliet, in Lauren Hollingsworth’s Interference, audiences applauded her starring performance from Montreal to the UK, Los Angeles to New York and even in the Deep South and her collaboration with Mark Bernier on The Last Time We Were… won the duo a Silver Remi at WorldFest Houston 2006 for Best Original Narrative Short.

Jennifer also has a deep affinity for the stage, deviating from mainstream productions; opting for creative transformations and diverse characterization. In 2004, Variety heralded her work as “ideal” in the critically acclaimed production of Bogosian's “suburbia” at the Skylight Theater. The LA Weekly deemed Jennifer “Impressive and Moving” for her ballsy portrayal of Elly in "Sunday On The Rocks," Backstage West defined her talent as “Triumphant” and The Palisadian Post said “[Fontaine] embodied the Lucy-ness of Lucy” for her portrayal of Lucy Van Pelt in Janet Carroll's “You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown”.

In 2001, along with her husband Kerem Hanci, Mrs. Fontaine founded Scorpio Rising Films a production company committed to supportive collaboration with devoted and impassioned artists, encouraging original and inspired material.

SRF has effectively piloted several projects, including Mementos, an award winning short spoof of Christopher Nolan’s thriller Memento and most recently, The Clown Project webseries bowing online concurrently at www.clownprojecttv.com and NOLA.com April 1st, 2008. In the summer of 2004, they embarked on their first foray into feature producing with Scott Somerndike’s romantic comedy 3 Wise Women. Their film, The Last Time We Were..., was honored with a Silver Remi at the 2006 Worldfest Houston and played to packed houses at The Los Angeles International Short Film Festival and The Beloit International Film Festival.

Since joining forces, Scorpio Rising Films and Mark Bernier's Jackie Frost Films have co-written and successfully packaged the crime thriller Glass Houses which will be shot in New Orleans in September 2008. Their development slate includes six more features; The Taxi Bride, Liz, LA Talking, Thunder on the Mountain, Anna and Meat Men.

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