PERSONAE ENTERTAINMENT PICTURES is a development-to-production-and-beyond company that takes scripts/concepts to film production via producing both creatively and financially, working closely with film production vendors, talent reps, sales, marketing and distribution companies to keep in touch with the desired film and its audience along the way.

We like to make films and music videos that tell out-of-the-ordinary stories with a unique twist and work with a variety of trusted partners, from start to finish, to bring the genre of film in production to its very best.

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Who We Are

Heidi Elizabeth (Eli) Philipsen-Meissner  -  Producer/Director/Writer
is a producer, writer, actress & director with 15 years of professional experience in international film, television and broadcast communications, who has REPORTED from the Red Carpet of the Berlin International Film Festival & gone on location around Europe as a FIELD PRODUCER/ON-CAMERA HOST/REPORTER for Deutsche Welle, TV, PRODUCTION COORDINATED 11 features, including The Better Angels (starring Jason Clarke, Diane Kruger, Wes Bentley and Brit Marling), PRODUCTION MANAGED & LINE PRODUCED multiple projects, including two national commercials and two independent features (MARCY & THIS IS  NOWHERE), worked with stunts in actions films such as SALT, PREMIUM RUSH, TOWER HEIST and THE OTHER GUYS, acted in several features, including THE BUSINESS TRIP (opposite Vince Vaugn, Tom Wilkinson & Dave Franco), and has produced the features MARCY & THIS IS NOWHERE. 
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Heidi has DIRECTED multiple shorts, music videos, commercials and, most recently, a feature.
She's a member of the Producers Guild of America, SAG-AFTRA, AEA, The Director List, the Motion Picture Institute’s Directors Alumni Club, NYWIFT, UPWIFT, Chicago Women in Film & Television, and University of Michigan and Columbia University Alumni Groups and holds many awards, honors and distinctions to her professional name, including recipient of the Producers Guild of America East Mentor program with mentor John Hadity, Executive Vice President for EP Financial Solutions, the film financing subsidiary of Entertainment Partners. Her awards include, but are not limited to "Best Screenplay," "Best First Film," "Best Performance & Experimental Film," and "Best Sound" for her films ANGEL INSIDE, A FORK IN THE ROAD and HER TELLING HEART.

Our History

Personae Entertainment was established in the year 2000, upon the making of the 16mm film short, "Angel Inside." 

Testimonials

“I’ve worked with Heidi Elizabeth over the last five years as a writer, producer, director and on-camera talent – both on projects in which I’ve employed her services as a writer/director/field-producer/on-camera talent, and projects in which she’s brought me on as a gaffer/lighting director/cameraman.  
She’s always professional, open and friendly, extremely focused and detail-oriented toward completing the desired visual product, whether that be a commercial, in-house corporate video, an interview for a nationally syndicated show or narrative film. 
It’s always a pleasure working with her.”
 
-- Bob Shenise, Shenise Productions