Enrique Posner
- Producer
- Writer
- Additional Crew
Shortly after graduating from Chicago's Northwestern University and starting his career as a coffee boy for Tom Hanks on the Gary Marshall-directed Nothing In Common and working as a production assistant on Hanoi Hilton starring Michael Moriarty, David Soul, and Jeffrey Jones, Posner went to work for world-renowned filmmaker Pedro Almodovar, playing a key role in the financing, distribution, marketing, and PR for his early films, including his breakthrough Academy Award-nominated Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown
He went on to produce Almodovar's Golden Globe nominee High Heels and Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down starring Antonio Banderas. In 1992, Posner created his own production company and film production fund, Filmania. He produced several films, including Uncovered, directed by Jim McBride and starring Kate Beckinsale; Lost In Transit, starring Jean Rochefort; Stiff Upper Lips, starring Sir Peter Ustinov and Metroland starring Christian Bale. He also helped structure financing for several films including Roman Polanski's Death And The Maiden and Sally Potter's Tango Lesson.
In 2001, Posner became a studio executive and served as Managing Director of Warner Bros Pictures Int'l Spain. During that time he was responsible for theatrical distribution and marketing in Spain of over 130 WB films including the first 3 installments of Harry Potter, The Matrix sequels, the Tom Cruise vehicle The Last Samurai, and Keanu Reeves' Constantine among many others. Posner helped launch WB's local production division and served as a local Executive liaison on Guillermo Del Toro's Academy Award-nominated Pan's Labyrinth and Milos Forman's Goya's Ghosts starring Natalie Portman and Javier Bardem.
In 2007, he co-founded an international Film sales company, 6 Sales, which has handled foreign sales on over 50 films including Sally Potter's Rage starring Jude Law and early works from director Alfonso Cuaron. In 2009 Posner sold that company and joined forces with Antonio Banderas and 3D animated studio Kandor Graphics. Together they produced 3 animated features; The Missing Lynx, Justin And The Knights of Valor starring Saoirse Ronan, Freddy Highmore, and Julie Walters; and the short film, The Lady And The Reaper which received an Academy Award nomination in 2010 for Best Animated Short Film.
More recently Posner produced The Healer starring Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Jonathan Pryce, and Camilla Luddington, and the documentary Brain Matters which explores the brain science behind the global movement to improve education through Early Childhood Development. Enrique has partnered with Actor / Writer / Director John Turturro to produce several films including Howard Beach and Is There No Place On Earth For Me based on the Pulitzer-Prize Prize-winning book. He is also developing a film based on the UK novel The Summer Of Impossible Things and a TV series, House of Osuna.
He went on to produce Almodovar's Golden Globe nominee High Heels and Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down starring Antonio Banderas. In 1992, Posner created his own production company and film production fund, Filmania. He produced several films, including Uncovered, directed by Jim McBride and starring Kate Beckinsale; Lost In Transit, starring Jean Rochefort; Stiff Upper Lips, starring Sir Peter Ustinov and Metroland starring Christian Bale. He also helped structure financing for several films including Roman Polanski's Death And The Maiden and Sally Potter's Tango Lesson.
In 2001, Posner became a studio executive and served as Managing Director of Warner Bros Pictures Int'l Spain. During that time he was responsible for theatrical distribution and marketing in Spain of over 130 WB films including the first 3 installments of Harry Potter, The Matrix sequels, the Tom Cruise vehicle The Last Samurai, and Keanu Reeves' Constantine among many others. Posner helped launch WB's local production division and served as a local Executive liaison on Guillermo Del Toro's Academy Award-nominated Pan's Labyrinth and Milos Forman's Goya's Ghosts starring Natalie Portman and Javier Bardem.
In 2007, he co-founded an international Film sales company, 6 Sales, which has handled foreign sales on over 50 films including Sally Potter's Rage starring Jude Law and early works from director Alfonso Cuaron. In 2009 Posner sold that company and joined forces with Antonio Banderas and 3D animated studio Kandor Graphics. Together they produced 3 animated features; The Missing Lynx, Justin And The Knights of Valor starring Saoirse Ronan, Freddy Highmore, and Julie Walters; and the short film, The Lady And The Reaper which received an Academy Award nomination in 2010 for Best Animated Short Film.
More recently Posner produced The Healer starring Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Jonathan Pryce, and Camilla Luddington, and the documentary Brain Matters which explores the brain science behind the global movement to improve education through Early Childhood Development. Enrique has partnered with Actor / Writer / Director John Turturro to produce several films including Howard Beach and Is There No Place On Earth For Me based on the Pulitzer-Prize Prize-winning book. He is also developing a film based on the UK novel The Summer Of Impossible Things and a TV series, House of Osuna.
