Mark Albela

In 1996, having decided to pursue a university degree in drilling engineering in Houston, Texas, he is offered work as production runner on Steven Spielberg’s “Empire of the Sun”. The originally short experience turns into a year’s work, after which he decides to accept an offer for another Steven Spielberg feature “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade”. After this he shifts his efforts from engineering to focus on a professional career in entertainment
For six years he works on over 20 features and many more commercials, until 1994 when he is invited by Denise O’Dell to set up Madrid based KanZaman s.a.
Following his feature production debut, he is named MD of the company focusing his efforts on co-producing mid to large budget features to include “Sexy Beast” “Sahara”, “Kingdom of Heaven”, “Basic Instinct 2” amongst many other titles.
In 2006, came the incursion into the French territory with  KanZaman France in order to develop, produce and coproduce in the territory.
Married and with two daughters, he lives in Madrid, Spain.

 SELECTED CREDITS

•    2008- PEPIN BELLO - Tomás Studer
  

•    2007- MY LIFE IN RUINS - Donald Petrie

•    2007- GOYA'S GHOSTS - Milos Forman

•    2006- H6 - Martín Garrido

•    2006- BASIC INSTINCT 2 - M. Caton-Jones
  

•    2005- KINGDOM OF HEAVEN - Ridley Scott

•    2005- SAHARA - Breck Eisner

•    2004- A GOOD WOMAN - Mike Barker

•    2004- THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY - Mary McGuckian
  

•    2002- DIE ANOTHER DAY - Lee Tamahori

•    2000- SEXY BEAST - Jonathan Glazer