How Culture Impacts Craft with Marina Stabile, Producer of Sundance Winning Film "Josephine"

About this episode

Marina Stabile discusses her journey as a producer and how culture influences her craft in filmmaking.

Marina Stabile is a Brazilian-born, Swiss-raised producer and line producer with over 20 years of experience in film, documentaries, commercials, and digital content. She is also one of my favorite humans and I'm lucky I get to call her a friend. She grew up in São Paulo, moved to Geneva at 10, attended an international school with 118 nationalities, and knew she wanted to produce after watching the Irving Thalberg Award presented at 3 a.m. on an Oscar broadcast. She studied film and international relations at USC, produced documentaries for the United Nations in Geneva, and returned to the U.S. to earn her MFA in producing at AFI, where her thesis film The Response won a Student BAFTA. Marina's credits span indie and studio, including Miguel Arteta's Beatriz at Dinner starring Salma Hayek, the Sundance Grand Jury Prize–winning Clemency starring Alfre Woodard, Harrison Ford's The Call of the Wild (as VFX supervisor), Searchlight's Hold Your Breath starring Sarah Paulson, The People We Hate at the Wedding , and the pandemic-shot Untitled Horror Movie alongside fellow producer Bronwyn Cornelius. Most recently, she produced Josephine — written and directed by Beth de Araújo and…

People in this episode

Guest: Marina Stabile

Topics covered

• culture
• film
• production
• Sundance

Keywords

• Brazilian
• Swiss
• producer
• documentaries
• Oscar
• MFA

Mentioned in this episode

Products: The Response, Beatriz at Dinner, Clemency, The Call of the Wild, Hold Your Breath, The People We Hate at the Wedding, Untitled Horror Movie

Books & works: Sundance, Josephine, the Irving Thalberg Award, Oscar, MFA, The Response, a Student BAFTA, Beatriz at Dinner, Clemency, The Call of the Wild

Places: São Paulo, Geneva, U.S., Los Angeles

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