“He Could Almost Do It All Alone”: Producer Paula Vaccaro on Working with Emir Kusturica

I guess people expect to see a big bearded man as Emir Kusturica’s producer. Of course the question I get the most is, how did it start? I was a journalist more than 20 years ago in my hometown, Buenos Aires. In the late 1990s I moved into production: management, line producing, etc. In the early 2000s I moved to the UK and Spain and started to produce for others. My encounter with Emir’s work was thanks to Jose Ibañez, Pentagrama Films producer, who was producing Oliver Stone’s [unrealized] The Immortals, a series on world leaders seen from Oliver’s prism. […]

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