"Raspberry and Lavender" is a live action feature film based on Johnny (Derek D.) Kim's Original Comic book series (Created in 1995) TM&(c)2002 Dereko Entertainment LLC./Raspberry & Lavender LLC. All Rights Reserved.
"Raspberry & Lavender" is a romantic comedy drama about a seventeen year old
wealthy teen named Taylor Williams the third (Dylan Edrington) meeting his dream "lavender" girl....Mandi Carson (Bree) for the very first time at his new school, Seaport-Greene High...in a very prestigious coastal community called Seaport-Greene Estates. Ever since Taylor was young, he would often imagine meeting a perfect girl, which he calls her the "lavender girl"....because he kept having a quick premonition vision of her. The imaginary "lavender girl" is always wearing a lavender dress.
Well, as Taylor Williams III (Dylan Edrington) attends the school for the first time, he is surprised to see that Mandi Carson (Bree) is in his business education class (Mr. Dodson's class). Mandi Carson has perfect blue-green eyes, auburn hair, and she always wear lavender color clothes...even her notebooks are lavender color... Taylor becomes good friends with Kaspar Vanderhoffer (A.J. Bakker) and Mandi as Mr. Dodson instructs them to be in a group to work on a business project together.
Taylor, Mandi, and Kaspar decide get together by baking homemade cookies to raise funds for the school project.
Kaspar’s 14year old little brother named Randy Vanderhoffer (Andrew Martin)...a whiz kid decides to join in by helping them with the formula to make better cookies. The teens begin to experiment by adding raspberries and lavender flower into the cookie dough....
They take their homemade cookies to the local bakery called The Pastry Dish Bakery. Langwood Lee (Johnny Kim) a junior assistant manager in training decides to sell and market their home made Raspberry & Lavender cookies to the customers.
Soon all the customers are requesting for more Raspberry & Lavender cookies because it brings them a good luck. The cookies are selling like hotcakes...making the bakery and teens
rich!
Unfortunately, Frank Whitworth (Tim Colceri) a marketing executive who works for Milton's Fabulous & Delicious Crispy Cookies decides to offer the teens (Taylor, Mandi, Kaspar & Randy) ten thousand dollars for their secret ingredient but sharp teens refuse to sell them their formula.
After many unsuccessful attempts, Frank Whitworth (Tim Colceri) decides to hire Kaspar's high school buddies Sergio Martinez (Oz Sanchez) and Travis the rocker (Jamisin Mathews) to steal the secret formula away from the cookie teens.
After losing their secret formula, the cookie teens find out that their Raspberry & Lavender cookies are not selling at all.... because it has lost its magical powers.... so they give up selling them.
Meanwhile, the wealthy Taylor Williams III (Dylan Edrington) falls in love with his dream lavender girl, Mandi Carson (Bree) who comes from a lower middle class. Mandi doesn't realize that Taylor comes from a very wealthy family until her rival jealous classmate Kara Van Dael (Gloria Balding) reveals the truth
about Taylor and his wealth to Mandi.
Taylor must go through tremendous obstacles trying to make Mandi to become his girlfriend.... his father, Mr. Williams (Sam Bologna) objects Taylor dating a poor girl like Mandi and would rather want his only son to go out with a rich snob girl like Kara Van Dael (Gloria Balding).
Kara Van Dael (Gloria Balding), the extremely jealous rich snobby girl and her another best snobby rich friend named Chloe Jahanpour (Wendy Cardiel) will try anything to break up their (Taylor & Mandi) relationship....
At the end of the movie, Laurie Milton (Deenie Castleberry)...the rich daughter of Mr. Milton (Roger M. Eaves) the C.E.O. of Milton's Fabulous & Delicious Crispy Cookies.... feels bad for their classmates so she teams up other classmates including Sergio Martinez (he later changed his mind because he felt bad) to get their formula back from her father Mr. Milton (Roger M. Eaves) and Frank Withworth (Tim Colceri) to the teens (Taylor,
Mandi, Kaspar & Randy).
There is a happy ending because the teens get their secret formula back and they are back in cookie business selling Raspberry & Lavender cookies and Taylor Williams and Mandi Carson are together forever...
The reason why the title of the movie is called Raspberry & Lavender is because: Mandi Carson (Taylor Williams III's dream lavender girl) always wears lavender color clothes and she is obsessed with the lavender color and raspberries are her favorite fruit...
The cookies the teens sell are called Raspberry & Lavender Cookies...
According to Director/Producer/Writer Johnny (Derek D.) Kim, Raspberry & Lavender will be released theatrically in end of the year. Stay posted on all the latest, at both Dereko Entertainment and Entertainment Zone!
Dylan Edrington - As Taylor Williams III
Bree - As Mandi Carson
A.J. Bakker - As Kaspar Vanderhoffer
Gloria Balding - As Kara/Karin Van Dael
Andrew Martin - As Randy Vanderhoffer (Kaspar's little brother)
Oz Sanchez - As Sergio (The Class Clown)
Jamisin Mathews - As Travis (The Gothic Rocker)
Deenie Castleberry - As Laurie Milton (Mr. Milton's daughter)
Wendy Cardiel as Chloë Jahanpour
Christian Nurse - As Sebastian Rothchild
Christy Miles - As Cindy Swensen
Lyndsay Martin - As Betty
Amber Walsh - As Bethany
Tim Colceri - As Franklin Whitworth
Roger M. Eaves - As Mr. Milton( C.E.O. of Milton's Fabulous & Delicious Crispy Cookies)
Johnny Kim as Langwood Lee (Junior Assistant Manager in training at Pastry Dish Bakery)
Sam Bologna as Mr. Taylor Williams II
Tamara Castle - As Janice (Nanny)
Fredrick Bald - As Clarence (Butler)
Eddie Ed O'Brien as Mr. Dodson (Business education teacher)
Rebecca Ritz - As Miss Barrington(A.P. English teacher)
James Dixon - As Mr. Jim Carson (Mandi's dad)
Sara Mathews- As Mrs. Barbara Carson (Mandi's mom)
Alison Sarpolis - As Melanie Carson (Mandi's little sister)
Rossi - As Bixley
Ralph J. Ciaravino - As Mr. Jan Vanderhoffer (Kaspar & Randy's father)
Edwin A. Santos - As Mr. Tan (Foreign buyer)
Justin Born - As Raphael
Devin Reeve - As Thomas Robbins (Representative)
Connie Warbrick - As Seaport-Green High School Principal
Davis Choh - As Joon (Tiffany's boyfriend)
Samantha Lee - As Tiffany
Tony TL Young - As a poet
Philip Chen - As Instructor
Maya Onoda - As Miss Wong
LaFayette - As Mr. Banks
(One Fine Day) - Grace, Yvonne, Walter and her fellow band mates who performed for the dance scene...
Mariah Yard, Lindsay Hubbart, Haley Boyce, Sara Saunders, Caitlen Foell, Kathleen Van Dyke, Jennifer Choi, Veronica Cheang, David Silvers, and others (Huntington Beach High Student)......as the students at Seaport-Greene High School
Story and screenplay by Johnny ( Derek D.) Kim & Samantha Lee
Additional screenplay by Tony TL Young
Production companies: Dereko Entertainment LLC. /Raspberry & Lavender LLC.
Executive Producers: Samantha Lee, Sumo Liu
Producer: Johnny Kim
Director: Johnny Kim
Line Producer/UPM: Sheena Shih.
Director of Photography: Kurt Douglas (II)
First Assistant Camera: Richard Avalon
Second Assistant Camera: Lewis Fowler
Third Assistant Camera/Loader: Bryce Worcester
First Assistant Director: Rob Crenshaw
Second Assistant Director: Tony T.L. Young
Script Supervisor: Jesse Lee
On set acting/dialogue coach: Tim Colceri
Set Coordinator: Oz Sanchez
Key makeup/glamour design: Jo Crowley
Make up: Robyn Tolbert
Assist Makeup: Thea Samuels
Sounds provided by: All Sound Audio Post Services - Matt Walsh & Klint Macro
Gaffer: David Thorngren
Lighting, grip, electrical services provided by: Samuelson Film Services Inc. Leon Samuelson & Tony Pulice
"Raspberry and Lavender" is a live action feature film based on Johnny (Derek D.) Kim's Original Comic book series (Created in 1995) TM&(c)2002 
Taylor, Mandi, and Kaspar decide get together by baking homemade cookies to raise funds for the school project.
Kara Van Dael (Gloria Balding), the extremely jealous rich snobby girl and her another best snobby rich friend named Chloe Jahanpour (Wendy Cardiel) will try anything to break up their (Taylor & Mandi) relationship....
