Linda Reisman

Linda Reisman is an independent film producer. Leave No Trace, directed by Debra Granik and starring Ben Foster and Thomasin McKenzie, premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and the Directors Fortnight section of the Cannes Film Festival. It received three Spirit nominations, including Best Feature, and two Gotham nominations.

Previously, Reisman was executive producer of The Danish Girl, directed by Tom Hooper and starring Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander, which was released to critical acclaim. The Danish Girl received four Academy Award nominations and Alicia Vikander won for Best Supporting Actress.

For several years, Reisman was head of production for Francis Coppola’s American Zoetrope, and supervised development, production, and completion of Zoetrope’s slate.

Reisman also produced Waking the Dead, directed by Keith Gordon from the novel by Scott Spencer, which starred Billy Crudup and Jennifer Connelly; and the critically acclaimed Affliction, based on Russell Banks’ novel, directed by Paul Schrader, and starring Academy Award nominee Nick Nolte, Academy Award winner James Coburn, Sissy Spacek, and Willem Dafoe. Other projects include Keith Gordon’s Mother Night, from the novel by Kurt Vonnegut; and Schrader’s Light Sleeper, The Comfort of Strangers, and Patty Hearst. Reisman’s films have premiered at the Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Toronto, Telluride, and Sundance Film Festivals.

Linda Reisman is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the collective Producers United. She serves annually as a judge for the Academy’s Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, and also serves on the USC Scripter Award Committee.