Anna Gross

Co-founder, with David Rubin, of Firefly Pictures in January 2003.

Her last project there was the Oscar winning Life Is Beautiful (1997). Anna then began her own niche business of overseeing Oscar campaigns for foreign films.

She oversaw production for the Italian financier on Robert De Niro's directorial debut A Bronx Tale (1993).

She was the key executive on the Oscar winning Mediterraneo (1991), Giuseppe Tornatore's The Star Maker (1995) (best foreign language nominee), Il Postino (1994) (five nominations). She handled the US sale and delivery of these films and was point person for Miramax on its distribution and Academy campaigns.

In the early 1990s, Gross served as Vice President of Production for Italian producer/distributor Vittorio Cecchi Gori.

She oversaw production of The NeverEnding Story (1984), The Name of the Rose (1986) and Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989). She then returned to established Constantin Film's Los Angeles operation.

Gross spent much of the 1980s working in Germany with European uber producer, Bernd Eichinger.

She then served as Vice President of Production for Sydney Pollack, working on The Electric Horseman (1979) and the development of Tootsie (1982) and Out of Africa (1985).

Anna Gross began her career with an 8 year stint with Dino De Laurentiis, where she worked in various capacities on 14 films, including Death Wish (1974), Three Days of the Condor (1975), The Shootist (1976), King Kong (1976) and Ragtime.