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Renée Missel (Film Producer)

Renée Missel (born 1947) is a film producer and former photojournalist who has been active since the 1970's. She is a voting member of the Motion Picture Academy, and serves as a judge for the MPAA Nicholl Screenplay competition, MPAA International Oscar Shorts competition, and the UCLA Samuel Goldwyn writing competition.

Early Life

Missel spent her early years in Montréal, Canada, before moving to California where she attended and graduated from Antioch University. After graduation, she quickly picked up her first few minor gigs as a production assistant for Roger Corman and a second assistant director for Fred Weintraub. She then became a story editor at Kings Road Entertainment where she worked under film producers Sam Goldwyn Jr., and Steve Friedman on the development of both Slap Shot (1977) and Bloodbrothers (1978).

Career

In 1977, Missel leapt head first into producing as she partnered with Howard Rosenman to co-produce the Warner Brothers hit romantic comedy The Main Event (1979) starring Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal. The Main Event (1979) was developed from Missel's own original idea about a woman who owns and manages a boxer.

Following the success of The Main Event (1979), Missel and Rosenman signed a producing deal with Universal Pictures where they developed and produced Resurrection (1980) starring Ellen Burstyn and Sam Shepard. The film garnered two Oscar nominations for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress (Eva LeGalienne), and one Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress and has become a cult classic as it explores the themes of consciousness, healing, near-death experience, and basic goodness through the use a female Christ figure.

In 1982, Missel moved to ABC Motion Pictures where she served as Vice President of West Coast Production. While at ABC, she worked on The Flamingo Kid (1984) starring Matt Dillon, and Pritzi's Honor (1985) starring Jack Nicholson.

After leaving ABC, she co-wrote and produced My Man Adam (1986) starring Veronica Cartwright and Raphael Sbarge before joining Dino De Laurentiis and Dino de Laurentiis Cinematografica in 1987 as Head of Production.

She left DDL in 1988 and joined Taylor Hackford’s New Visions Pictures to produce her own original film noir-thriller Defenseless (1991) starring Barbara Hershey and Sam Shepard.

In 1990, Missel rejoined Samuel Goldwyn Jr. and The Samuel Goldwyn Company as Vice President of Production in charge of remakes.

Within a few years, she left The Samuel Goldwyn Company to partner with Jodie Foster in producing Nell (1994), the motion picture adaptation of Idioglossia. The film starred Foster along with Liam Neeson and garnered a 1994 Oscar nomination for Best Actress, and two Golden Globe nominations for Best Actress and Best Score.

Soon after the success of Nell (1994), Missel went on to Gramercy Pictures to produce Guy (1997) starring Vincent D'Onofrio and Hope Davis. The film depicts a woman who follows men with a video camera and deals with themes of intimacy and narcissism. Guy (1997) received critical acclaim at the Venice Film Festival, the Rotterdam Film Festival, and the Miami International Film Festival.

In 1997, Missel became the Artistic Director of the eleven-day Santa Barbara International Film Festival, committing herself to redesigning and positioning the festival to include a host of seminars each year including Oscar nominated screenwriters, directors, producers, cameramen, and editors. She also inaugurated the popular It Starts With The Script symposium which was moderated each year by Laura Ziskin.

During her tenure, honorees included Jodie Foster, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Sean Penn, Anjelika Houston, Ben Kingsley, Whoopi Goldberg, Diane Keaton, Rob Reiner, Julie Christie, John Schesinger, Richard Pryor, and Robert Towne among others.

During her last year as Artistic Director, the festival hosted 40,000 attendees.

Later Years

In 2006, Missel launched her management company, Renée Missel Management where she managed European and U.S. talent while developing film projects to produce.

In 2017 she trimmed her client list down to three artists: Julie Christie, writer/director Michael Aloyan, and playwright Shvan Aladdin.

She is currently in the process of adapting a novel for the screen.

References

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