Tyler Perry vet Bobb to direct 'Izzie'

Former Tyler Perry Art galleries professional veep Roger M. Bobb will direct and convey "Raising Izzie," a film that will have a very TV premiere on GMC within this summer time.Bobb is pointing a script from David Martyn Conley that won the GMC Belief and Family script competition taken. Production is always to originate from Atlanta in March round the story of two orphaned brothers and sisters together with an instructor who takes them under wing."Once we launched our script competition taken, we're able to not have access to imagined from the more fortuitous outcome," mentioned vice chairman Kaira Siegel of GMC, which has distribution in 51 million houses. "Our goal wound up being to locate belief-friendly family tales that individuals could become entertaining, advantageous films. In 'Raising Izzie,' we have found exactly that.InchThe truth that the filmmaker of Roger Bobb's experience and stature has signed on as director and producer of 'Raising Izzie' is evidence of the potency of the storytelling."For Tyler Perry Art galleries, Bobb work incorporated creating such projects as "For Colored Women" and "Madea's Large Happy Family" and pointing cases of "Fulfill the Browns." More youthful crowd professional produced and directed nonfiction series "Your DreamInch for ESPNU. "I'm very excited being coping with GMC to produce David Martyn Conley's moving and funny script for the screen," Bobb mentioned."Raising Izzie," which will bow in June within the 2012 American Black Film Festival in June (when the champion in the second GMC Belief and Family script competish is introduced) before its smallscreen premiere, is Bobb's feature film directorial debut which is being produced his Bobcat Films shingle. Contact Jon Weisman at jon.weisman@variety.com