The Raven Symone’ produced, College Road Trip, now on DVD

*“I love to produce. I produced College Road Trip, The Cheetah Girls and That’s So Raven,” said child star turned adult star, Raven Symone’, about her production experiences. “It takes a lot of planning and work.

The Walt Disney/Gunn Film, College Road Trip, is now on DVD. It includes alternate opening and ending; deleted scenes; “Double Dutch Bus” music video performed by Symone’; a Raven Symone’ video diary, and two commentaries by Director Roger Kumble, and writers Emi Mochizuki and Carrie Evans.

Raven said she had wanted to do a project with Walt Disney and when they presented this script, she made it happen.

“I was hoping that parent-daughter relationship came through the camera,” Raven said about working with comedian/actor Martin Lawrence. “I am a fan of Martin and I didn’t want that to show on camera, but when the camera was off; I was so excited …asking him questions.”

College Road Trip is about a relationship between a daughter (Raven Symone’) and her father, a police chief (Martin Lawrence), and his attempt at keeping her close to home when she attends college in the fall. The father decides to accompany his daughter on a road trip to see colleges in hopes he can persuade her to stay home. The result is a ton laughs to keep you viewing the film all the way to the end.

Raven Symone’ started in the entertainment business at 16 months-old modeling. Her family moved to New York and she was immediately signed to the Ford Agency. She was auditioning for “Ghost Dad” when she met Sidney Poiter. He in turn mentioned Raven to Bill Crosby and the result is her first acting role in a major television sit-com, at age three. A couple years later she added singer to her resume with her first album produced by Missy Elliott. Raven just released her fourth self titled album, Raven Symone’, found in Target stores.

“I am currently on tour now,” Symone’ said about her new CD. “Tell everyone to log onto Raven-Symone.org and RavenSymonePresents.com!”