Renée Missel made her leap into producing by serving as Executive Producer on the Warner Brothers 1979 hit film THE MAIN EVENT. She developed the film from her own original idea. It starred Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal.

While under contract as a producer to Universal Pictures, she developed and produced RESURRECTION. The film starred Ellen Burstyn and Sam Shepard and garnered two Oscar nominations for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress (Eva LeGalienne), and one Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in 1981.

In 1983, she served as Vice-President of West Coast Production for ABC Motion Pictures, where she worked on THE FLAMINGO KID starring Matt Dillon, and PRITZI'S HONOR starring Jack Nicholson.

After leaving ABC in 1986, she co-wrote, and produced MY MAN ADAM for The Mount Company. The film was released by TriStar Pictures. In 1988 Missel then went on to join Dino De Laurentiis in his company where she was named Head of Production.

Missel left DDL to produce one of her projects, DEFENSELESS, for Taylor Hackford’s New Visions Pictures. The film was released by Fine Line, and starred Barbara Hershey and Sam Shepard. In 1991 she joined Samuel Goldwyn Jr. as V.P. with the Samuel Goldwyn Company.

Having optioned the play IDIOGLOSSIA, which she developed into the Fox/Polygram motion picture NELL, Missel produced the film in 1994 with Jodie Foster. Foster starred in it along with Liam Neeson. The film garnered an Oscar nomination for Best Actress, and two Golden Globe nominations for Best Actress and Best Score.

Missel then produced GUY for Gramercy. It starred Vincent D'Onofrio and Hope Davis. The film was released by Gramercy Pictures in 1996.

Venturing in another direction, in 1998 Renée Missel became the Artistic Director of the eleven-day Santa Barbara International Film Festival, and committed herself to redesigning and positioning the festival.

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, and Robert Towne among others.

Each year a host of seminars also included the year’s Oscar nominated screenwriters, directors, producers, cameramen and editors. Missel inaugurated the popular It Starts With The Script symposium moderated each year by Laura Ziskin. During her last year the festival hosted 40,000 attendees. Up to 120 films were programmed during each edition.

Missel is presently preparing the English remake of the Dutch film, ZUS and ZO, nominated for an Oscar as best foreign film in 2002, as well as ROGUE SCHOLARS, an independent film.

In 2003, she founded her new company, Renée Missel Management, which focuses on managing American, European and Canadian talent.

A native of Montréal, Canada, Renée Missel began her career as a photojournalist, and later as a documentary film producer in New York City. She is a graduate of Antioch University.

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