Karla LaRive Creative Director & Principal Studio West Management

KARLA LARIVE, Executive Producer and Manager Rep for PK Productions, LLC.

PK Productions, LLC, an indigenous music management and media company was founded in the Black Hills of South Dakota in September 2006.

LaRive brings her entertainment management background in Broadway Theatre, Special Events and Concert Promotion to PK Productions. Her career includes working in New York City for Manhattan Punch Line Theatre (Off-Broadway) as a production manager, and Theatre Now, Inc, a (Broadway) theatre general management firm. As Co-Producer with Nederlander Companies (LA), she assisted in presenting many Broadway productions in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Atlantic City and Lake Tahoe theatrical markets and, touring Broadway companies.

 She has been Creative Director for Studio West Management since 2004. SWM offers production support, locations scout services, photography, casting and talent representation for feature film, television, documentary and music projects.

 

Studio West Management is responsible for bringing the following film and video projects to western South Dakota:

“Into the Wild” Paramount/Vantage Films(Sean Pean Director/Screenwriter), “Investigating History | Who Killed Crazy Horse” Bill Kurtis Productions for History Channel; “Cowboys | Wild Mustangs” BEI, Productions for Outdoor Channel; and “Comanche Warrior” Digital Ranch Productions for History Channel, NHK TV for Japan Public Broadcasting, National Geographic's "Before 1492" for Gruppe 5 Film / Cologne, Germany and, many more.

As Media Relations Director for the Black Hill Wild Horse Sanctuary, LaRive staged the Ford Motor Company website launch at the Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary for “Save the Mustangs” campaign in conjunction with Take Pride America, Bureau of Land Management, BHWHS Founder, Dayton O. Hyde and Actress/Animal Advocate, Stephanie Powers.

In 2006 the company launched it’s first music project with Native American Hip Hop/Rap Artist/Activist, Shadowyze.producing his 2006 CD release “BOOMBOOM | BUMPYROADS | LILMAMA - Club Remix.

“Bumpy Roads” became Shadowyze’s first music video from the CD and was filmed in association with Christopher Crosby, musicseenPROductions

“Bumpy Roads” was nominated for “Best Short Form Music Video” at the 9th Annual Native American Music Awards in 2007.

In 2007 she co-produced her second music video with musicseenPROductions for Michael Bucher “Dirty Water, A tribute to Bear Butte Mountain, South Dakota” Dirty Water was nominated for “Best Short Form Music Video” at the 10th Annual Native American Music Awards in New York in 2008.

She has recently produced in association with musicseenPROductions; Michael Bucher’s “Don’t Forget About Me" and "Sacred Ground, Live at the Gathering of Nations.”

Bucher's music videos deal with the protection of Native burial grounds, Native grave sites and sacred sites. Shot partially on location at the petrogylph site at the Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary, Badlands National Park and Wounded Knee Memorial, Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota, Albuquerque and Taos, New Mexico.

She is currently in post-production for Wind Spirit Drum's "Trail of Tears", short form documentary music video.

Ms. LaRive is an Associate Member of the Washington, DC chapter of The NATIONAL ACADEMY OF RECORDING ARTS & SCIENCES (Grammys) and Advisory Member of the NATIVE AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS (Nammys), and Past President (2006), Hot Springs Area Chamber of Commerce.