Biografia
Academy Award/BAFTA/Golden Globe/PGA nominee Raymond Mansfield is a veteran producer, financier and a founding partner of QC Entertainment. Mansfield's passion for storytelling has led him to a nearly 25-year career dedicated to shepherding a diverse array of filmmaker-driven films. Mansfield has been integrally involved in all aspects of film production, from financing to development, packaging, on-set production, and sales and distribution.
Since launching in 2015, QC -- standing for Quality Control -- has quickly become a go-to company for producing and financing distinct director-driven films and television. QC Entertainment are the Academy Award nominated producers behind two of the most impactful films of the past decade - "Get Out" and "BlacKkKlansman." Involved in every aspect from development to production to release, both films led to back-to-back Academy Award Best Picture nominations and Academy Award winning screenplays for the company along with being critical and commercial successes.
Most recently, Mansfield is executive producing "Poacher" Richie Mehta's follow up to hit Netflix series "Delhi Crime." This true crime series premiered in the official Indie Episodic section of the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. QC fully financed and produced the 8-episode first season of the show which follows Indian Forest Service officers, NGO workers, police constables and good samaritans who risk their lives investigating the largest ivory poaching ring in the history of India. Mansfield is also currently producing "It Lives Inside," a PG-13 horror/thriller written & directed by Bishal Dutta. Starring Megan Suri, Neeru Bajwa, Mohana Krishnan & Betty Gabriel the story follows an Indian-American teenager struggling with her cultural identity who unwittingly releases a demonic entity that grows stronger by feeding on her loneliness. NEON (Best Picture winning distributor behind "Parasite") will release. The film premiered at the 2023 SXSW Film & TV Festival where it won the Audience Award for the Midnighters section. Additionally, Mansfield is executive producing David Stassen's mockumentary "Maximum Truth," which he co-wrote alongside the film's star Ike Barinholtz. Co-starring is Dylan O'Brien with Max Minghella, Kiernan Shipka, Blake Anderson, Mark Proksh and Seth Rogan appearing. To be released by eOne/Momentum.
In 2020, Mansfield served as Producer on Lionsgate's social thriller "Antebellum." The film, starring Janelle Monaé, marked the feature directorial debut for Advocacy filmmakers Gerard Bush + Christopher Renz (Bush + Renz) - best known for their pioneering advertising work engaged in the fight for social justice. Marque Richardson, Eric Lange, Jack Huston, Kiersey Clemons, Tongayi Chirisa, Gabourey Sidibe, Rob Aramayo, Lily Cowles and Jena Malone co-star. Mansfield also served as Executive Producer on "The Wrong Missy," a broad comedy co-produced with Adam Sandler's Happy Madison Productions. Upon its May 2020 release, the film quickly became among the Top Netflix films of all time with over 59 million subscribers watching in the first 28 days of release.
Mansfield's prior producing credits include: "BlacKkKlansman" from visionary film director Spike Lee, which premiered in Official Competition at the Cannes International Film Festival and went on to win the 2018 Grand Prix, and was nominated for six Academy Awards (including Best Picture), four Golden Globe awards (including Best Motion Picture - Drama), and five BAFTA awards (including Best Film); Ike Barinholtz's feature directorial debut "The Oath" based on his original screenplay and starring Barinholtz, Tiffany Haddish, Carrie Brownstein, Billy Magnussen, Meredith Hagner, Jon Barinholtz, Nora Dunn, Chris Ellis and John Cho; and Andrew Bowler's "Time Freak" starring Asa Butterfield, Sophie Turner and Skyler Gisondo, which was adapted from Bowler's Academy Award nominated short film of the same name.
Mansfield served as Executive Producer on Jordan Peele's feature directorial debut "Get Out," which QC developed, produced & financed from the initial pitch through its successful release. The acclaimed film became a global box office smash, culminating with Peele winning an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, and Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor - Daniel Kaluuya; as well as Zoe Lister-Jones' directorial debut "Band Aid" starring Lister-Jones, Adam Pally and Fred Armisen. QC financed and produced the film which was made by an all-female production crew and premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival in the U.S. Dramatic Competition section.
Prior to QC, Mansfield was Co-Founder & Co-President of Movie Package Company (MPC), a packaging/finance/production company with a focus on the business aspects of filmmaking; structuring risk mitigated investment opportunities for financiers interested in the field of entertainment. Over the course of his career, Mansfield has raised millions for film "packaging" - development, production and distribution financing - structured numerous finance models, and negotiated worldwide distribution deals, intellectual property deals, and above-the-line talent deals.
Mansfield's highlights prior to QC include: "The Messenger," directed by Academy Award nominee Oren Moverman and starring Academy Award nominee Woody Harrelson, Ben Foster, Steve Buscemi and Samantha Morton, which received multiple Academy Award nominations including Best Screenplay & Best Lead Actor; crime-thriller "Dog Eat Dog," written and directed by Academy Award, Golden Globe and Palme d'Or nominee Paul Schrader, and starring Academy Award winner Nicolas Cage and Academy Award nominee Willem Dafoe, which closed the Cannes International Film Festival 2016 Director's Fortnight; "Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter," starring Academy Award nominee Rinko Kikuchi and co-produced with Academy Award winner Alexander Payne, which premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival in the U.S. Dramatic Competition section and went on to garner multiple Independent Spirit Award nominations; and "And So It Goes" directed by Academy Award nominee Rob Reiner and starring Academy Award winners Michael Douglas and Diane Keaton.
Early in his career, Mansfield spent several years working with Bernie Mac while with management/production company, 3 Arts Entertainment, where he played a role in 20th Century Fox's television series "The Bernie Mac Show."
Mansfield has been nominated for an Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, BAFTA Award and the PGA's Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures. Films he has Produced, Executive Produced or been a production executive on have garnered twelve Academy Award nominations (incl. two wins), seven Golden Globe nominations (incl. one win), seven BAFTA nominations (incl. one win), two AFI Awards for Movie of the Year, a Grammy Award for "Best Instrumental Composition," and many other prestigious nominations and wins including from the DGA, WGA, SAG and PGA. Mansfield's films have also premiered and received awards at the world's leading film festivals including Cannes, Toronto, Sundance, Berlin and SXSW, amongst many others worldwide.
Mansfield graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in Radio-Television-Film.
