Naima Abed is a producer and since 2020 a principal of Paradise City, an entertainment venture she co-founded with Emilie Georges and for which she now runs the London office.
She began her film career in 2004 as a legal and business affairs executive at Celluloid Dreams where she dedicated her time to deal-making and commercial negotiations, as well as multiparty finance structuring. Abed joined Maximum Films in 2007, where she helped transition the company to media giant, eOne, garnering more client-facing international sales
expertise. After a stint at Headline Pictures as production executive for titles such as Dustin Hoffman’s Quartet, The Invisible Woman directed by and starring Ralph Fiennes, and series including Amazon’s The Man in the High Castle (2016 Creative Emmy Winner) and BBC’s Peter Pan in Scarlet, Abed started the London office for Memento International and La Cinéfacture, focusing on expanding and developing the companies’ English-speaking activities. She exec produced Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me by Your Name, Justin Kurzel’s True History of the Kelly Gang and Nicolas Pesce’s Piercing.
From that experience, Abed and Georges decided to launch Paradise City, a talent-driven production company and management firm that produces premium content from strong international voices for the global audience across a multitude of platforms for TV, Film as well as representing a select roster of filmmakers and storytellers.
Under the Paradise City banner she has produced Anthony Chen’s upcoming English debut Drift, starring Cynthia Erivo that premiered in Sundance Film Festival 2023. She’s currently working with talents such as Edward Berger, Lili Horvát, Philippe Lacôte and Babak Jalali.
