ALEX BRUNNER joined producers Guy East and Nigel Sinclair to launch Spitfire Pictures in early 2003, where Brunner has helped build a full slate of film projects as the key development and production executive. Now as Co-Head of Production with Tobin Armbrust, Brunner recently oversaw the production of the thriller POSSESSION starring Sarah Michelle Gellar (THE GRUDGE). In 2005, Brunner was the production executive on the critically acclaimed NO DIRECTION HOME: BOB DYLAN directed by Martin Scorsese.

Prior to Spitfire, Brunner worked at Intermedia Films under then Co-Chairman Nigel Sinclair. At the time, Intermedia was one of the world’s leading independent producers and distributors of major motion pictures, responsible for such No.1 hits as THE WEDDING PLANNER starring Jennifer Lopez and Matthew McConaughey, and K-PAX starring Kevin Spacey, ADAPTATION starring Nicholas Cage and Meryl Streep and TERMINATOR 3: RISE OF THE MACHINES starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Prior to Intermedia Films, Brunner trained as an agent at International Creative Management (ICM) for two years, working in both the motion picture literary and production departments of the firm.

Before ICM, Brunner worked for Hong Kong’s largest movie studio, Golden Harvest Films, working on productions such as Jackie Chan’s FIRST STRIKE and SUPER COP as well as project managing the development of a new studio facility in Hong Kong.

Brunner graduated from Boston University in 1996. He is also a trained camera man, having worked on productions such as AUSTIN POWERS: THE SPY WHO SHAGGED ME, ROCK STAR and SCREAM 3.