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Linda Reisman is an American film producer and college professor. She is perhaps best known for producing the independent films Affliction (1997) and Leave No Trace (2018), both of which were released under her Reisman Productions banner, and executive producing the critically acclaimed film The Danish Girl (2015).
Dec 10, 2015 · Producer and Emerson professor Linda Reisman talks about the challenges of trying to bring the 'Danish Girl' from the page to the screen for over a decade.
Reisman is the Senior Distinguished Producer in Residence at Emerson College. | Learn more about Linda Reisman's work experience, education, connections & more by visiting their profile on...
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Linda Reisman is known for Leave No Trace (2018), Affliction (1997) and The Danish Girl (2015).
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- Bu Today: How Many Projects Are You Working on at Any Given time?
- Bu Today: What Does It Take to Get A Film Made?
- Bu Today: How Did You Come to Produce Leave No Trace? Why Did You Want to Do It?
Linda Reisman: As an independent producer you really have to have multiple projects going at one time. Not many for me, I’d say six or seven that are in different stages. If I was at a production company, I’d probably have two dozen projects that I was working on. There’s a lot of waiting—waiting for a revision, the script, for the actress to read ...
Linda Reisman: A tremendous amount of tenacity and persistence. We make movies for different kinds of reasons. There is nothing wrong with being involved with a project for a paycheck. But for these stories which are much more challenging to get the financing for, you need tenacity, persistence, passion, and when you get knocked down, get back up a...
Linda Reisman: Adrienne Brodeur, who was then an editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, was working with My Abandonment’s writer, Pete Rock. I had known of Pete’s other work, and Adrienne said that she was working with him, and that she had a feeling that I would like it. She slipped me the manuscript, and I completely fell in love with the story, ab...
Dec 10, 2015 · Linda Reisman jokes that when her son was only 5 years old, he was already a little tired of hearing about "The Danish Girl." The punch line is that her son is now almost 13. Reisman worked 12...
Sep 18, 2023 · The Observer‘s outgoing film critic, Mark Kermode, ranked his top films of the last decade, which includes Leave No Trace, which was produced by Senior Distinguished Producer-in-Residence Linda Reisman.
