- With a career spanning over fifteen years, Marisa Polvino is a seasoned producer with a proven skill for identifying, packaging, and producing high quality, star driven entertainment across all mediums, genres, and budget levels. With her producing partner Kate Cohen, she formed Straight Up Films in 2008, and since then has been integral in growing the company and securing its first rate film slate. These include 'Transcendence', directed by Academy Award Winner, Wally Pfister, starring Johnny Depp, Morgan Freeman, and Rebecca Hall, and 'Jane Got a Gun', directed by Gavin O'Connor, starring Natalie Portman, Joel Edgerton, and Ewan McGregor. Alongside Eddy Moretti of Vice Media, she is producer on the documentary 'Shot: The Mick Rock Documentary'. With an unusual blend of financial management skills, high-level international relationships, and strong sales skills, Marisa has continually proven to be a true industry innovator and leader. She has a proven track record with budget and P&L management; branding, PR, and cross-media promotion; and financing and investor relations. In her previous positions at Revere Pictures and Eagle Beach Productions, Marisa secured multi-million dollar financing deals from angel investors, hedge funds, and sophisticated wealth managers. During this time she produced 'Outside Providence', starring Alec Baldwin, 'I'll Sleep When I'm Dead', starring Clive Owen and Johnathan Rhys Meyers, 'American Buffalo', starring Dustin Hoffman, 'The Education of Charlie Banks', starring Jesse Eisenberg, and the multiple award-winning 'The Door in the Floor', starring Jeff Bridges and Kim Basinger. In January 2013, Marisa led Straight Up Films to launch the commercial production division Disorderly Conduct, with Ron Cicero as Executive Producer. The company currently represents directors Brett Foraker, Luis Gerard, Jan Wentz, Daniel Levi, Eric Stoltz, and Francesco Calabrese.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Straight Up Films
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