Mary Jane Skalksi is a New York City-based producer whose films have consistently been critically acclaimed and commercially successful. She has also been highlighted as one of Variety’s “Producers to Watch.” Skalski produced Gregg Araki’s Mysterious Skin, which premiered at the 2004 Venice Film Festival and screened at the Toronto, Sundance and London film festivals. It was cited on over 70 Ten Best lists in the U.S. (including the New York Times and the L.A. Times) and received a Gotham Award nomination for Joseph Gordon-Levitt's breakout performance and a Spirit Award nomination for Best Director. Skalski’s previous collaboration with director Tom McCarthy, The Station Agent, premiered in the Dramatic Competition at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival and received the Audience Award, the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award and a special acting award for Patricia Clarkson. The film was cited on numerous Ten Best lists, including the National Board of Review’s. It received three Screen Actors Guild nominations, three Independent Spirit Awards and won a BAFTA (Best Screenplay). Skalski also produced The Hawk is Dying, directed by Julian Goldberger and starring Paul Giamatti, Michelle Williams and Michael Pitt. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was immediately invited to screen at the Cannes Film Festival later that year. For Steven Shainberg’s Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus, Skalski served as a co-producer. The film starred Nicole Kidman and Robert Downey Jr. and opened the inaugural Rome Film Festival in 2006.

Among her other credits, Skalski has produced The Jimmy Show, directed by Frank Whaley, Bart Freundlich’s The Myth of Fingerprints, Wonderland, directed by John O’Hagan, and David Schisgall’s The Lifestyle.
 
She is a consultant for Fortissimo Film Sales and is an assistant adjunct faculty member in Columbia University’s Graduate Film Department. From 1993 to 1999, Skalski was part of the New York-based production company Good Machine, where she acted in various capacities including VP of Creative Affairs. In 2004, Skalski was awarded the IFP Producer Award.

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THE VISITOR concerns a college professor who becomes embroiled in the lives of a young immigrant couple he discovers squatting in his Manhattan apartment. Confronted with adversity, these strangers become inextricably bound together.