MARINA GEFTER (Producer) is the driving force behind Femme Fatale, which she has supported and followed from the beginning, from the writing stage through casting and selection of the technical and artistic crew.

Born in Trieste, this Italian of Austro-Hungarian descent knew from youth she did not wish to become a lawyer like the rest of her family. At 18, she went to Milan to study at the Pavia University of Political Sciences and became a journalist. She wrote for Corriere della Sera, Panorama and Vogue. In the early '70s, Marina worked for Vogue New York where she met Tonino Cervi, the producer of Michelangelo Antonioni's Red Desert. He took Marina back to Italy, where she discovered the world of cinema with his friends, Bertolucci, Pasolini, Fellini and Rosi, a world she would never leave.

At 26, Marina Gefter produced her first film in Italy: a parody of 1001 Nights by Anthony Dawson, directed by Pasolini. With her production company, Moonlight Pictures, and in association with RAI, she produced and directed more than twenty hours of documentaries dedicated to great American filmmakers like Woody Allen, Robert Altman, Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg and Bob Fosse.

Gefter returned to feature films in 1985 with Good Morning Babylonia by the Taviani brothers for American producer Ed Pressman, followed by Ken Russell's Lady Chatterley (associate producer), Margarethe Von Trotta's Three Sisters and Gabriele Salvatores' South, for which she was the executive producer. When Francis Coppola decided to shoot The Godfather III in Rome and Sicily, Marina Gefter became his associate producer.

In 1995, Marina Gefter left Italy for France and England where she co-produced nine films in five years, including Malcolm Mowbray's The Revengers' Comedies starring Helena Bonham Carter and Sam Neill; Gilles MacKinnon's Marrakech Express starring Kate Winslet; Chris Menges's The Last September with Maggie Smith and Jane Birkin; Divorcing Jack with David Tewlis and Rachel Griffith and Khaled El Hagar's Room to Rent starring Juliette Lewis and Saoud Taghmaoui.