Barbara De Fina
Barbara De Fina was the executive producer of
"Good Fellas," which received an Academy Award nomination for Best
Picture in 1990, and has produced Martin Scorsese's "Bringing Out
the Dead", "Kundun," "Casino," "The Age of Innocence," "Cape Fear,"
the "Life Lessons" segment of "New York Stories," "The Last
Temptation of Christ," and "The Color of Money," as well as Michael
Jackson's music video "Bad."
She has also executive-produced
Stephen Frears' "The Grifters" and produced "Mad Dog and Glory,"
starring Robert De Niro and Bill Murray, Matthew Harrison's "Kicked
in the Head," and "The Hi-Lo Country" with Woody Harrelson. She
produced Kenny Lonergan's "You Can Count On Me" which won the Grand
Jury Prize at Sundance in 2001 and received two Academy Award
nominations for Best Original Screenplay and Best Actress.
De Fina worked on over fifteen films as a production coordinator,
including "The Gambler," "The Taking of Pelham 1,2,3," "The Valachi
Papers," Woody Allen's "Interiors" and Paul Mazursky's "An Unmarried
Woman." She then became associate producer for King/Hitzig
Productions where she developed "Cattle Annie and Little Britches,"
"Happy Birthday, Gemini" and "Wolfen," as well as a number of TV
movies and pilots.
She worked as unit manager/associate producer with Jay Presson
Allen on Sidney Lumet's "Prince of the City" and as unit manager on
the feature film "The Chosen." Her television experience as unit
production manager includes a number of Universal and
Spelling/Goldberg productions, including "Paper Dolls" and "The
Equalizer." She began her association with Martin Scorsese as unit
manager during post-production of "The King of Comedy."
