Josi W. Konski is a film producer

Film producer

A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The...

. Arriving in the US from Cuba

Cuba

The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...

 at a young age, Josi finished H. B. Plant High School

Henry B. Plant High School

H.B. Plant High School was opened in 1927 on South Himes Avenue in Tampa, Florida, United States. The school is named in honor of railroad and hotel tycoon Henry B. Plant. The school mascot is the Panther. The school motto is "Strength Through Unity." Plant High School currently has enrolled more...

 in Tampa, Florida

Tampa, Florida

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 then studied to become an aeronautical engineer

Aerospace engineering

Aerospace engineering is the primary branch of engineering concerned with the design, construction and science of aircraft and spacecraft. It is divided into two major and overlapping branches: aeronautical engineering and astronautical engineering...

 at Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University, afterwards, he obtained a minor in film and upon graduation served with the US Air Force

United States Air Force

The United States Air Force is the aerial warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the American uniformed services. Initially part of the United States Army, the USAF was formed as a separate branch of the military on September 18, 1947 under the National Security Act of...

 for 6 years. Josi is a long time member of the Directors Guild of America

Directors Guild of America

Directors Guild of America is an entertainment labor union which represents the interests of film and television directors in the United States motion picture industry...

, has either produced, managed or directed over 60 feature films with such talented actors as Steven Baldwin, Linda Blair

Linda Blair

Linda Denise Blair is an American actress. Blair is best known for her role as the possessed child, Regan, in the 1973 film The Exorcist, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award and two Golden Globes, winning one. She reprised her role in 1977's Exorcist II: The Heretic.-Biography:Blair...

, Ernest Borgnine

Ernest Borgnine

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, Lorraine Bracco

Lorraine Bracco

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, Beverly D'Angelo

Beverly D'Angelo

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, Robert Downey Jr.

Robert Downey Jr.

Robert John Downey, Jr. is an American actor. Downey made his screen debut in 1970 at the age of five when he appeared in his father's film Pound, and has worked consistently in film and television ever since. During the 1980s he had roles in a series of coming of age films associated with the...

 Charles Durning

Charles Durning

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, Robert Duvall

Robert Duvall

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, Alison Eastwood

Alison Eastwood

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, Giancarlo Esposito

Giancarlo Esposito

Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito is a Danish-born American film and television actor and director.-Early life:Esposito was born in Copenhagen, Denmark to an Italian father and African-American mother. His mother was an opera and nightclub singer from Alabama, who once appeared on the same...

, Frederic Forrest

Frederic Forrest

-Life:Forrest was born in Waxahachie, Texas, the son of Virginia Allie and Frederic Fenimore Forrest, a furniture store owner. He is known for his roles as Chef in Apocalypse Now, When The Legends Die, It Lives Again, the neo-Nazi surplus store owner in Falling Down, Right to Kill? and for playing...

, William Forsythe

William Forsythe (actor)

William Forsythe is an American actor, known for playing "tough guy" roles. He is also a writer, and has several short stories that are set to be published.-Early life:...

, Andy Garcia

Andy García

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, Balthazar Getty

Balthazar Getty

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, Lisa Hartman

Lisa Hartman

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, Terence Hill

Terence Hill

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, Lee Horsley

Lee Horsley

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, Amy Irving

Amy Irving

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, Raul Julia

Raúl Juliá

Raúl Rafael Juliá y Arcelay was a Puerto Rican actor.Born in San Juan, he gained interest in acting while still in school. Upon completing his studies, Juliá decided to pursue a career in acting. After performing in the local scene for some time, he was convinced by entertainment personality Orson...

, Christine Lathi, Jennifer Jason Leigh

Jennifer Jason Leigh

Jennifer Jason Leigh is an American film and stage actress, best known for her roles in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Single White Female, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Georgia and Short Cuts...

, Dillon MacDermoth, Jackie Mason

Jackie Mason

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, Kelly McGillis

Kelly McGillis

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, Tomas Milian

Tomas Milian

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, George Newbern

George Newbern

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, Danny Nucci, Judge Reinghold, Burt Reynolds

Burt Reynolds

Burton Leon "Burt" Reynolds, Jr. is an American actor. Some of his memorable roles include Bo 'Bandit' Darville in Smokey and the Bandit, Lewis Medlock in Deliverance, Bobby "Gator" McCluskey in White Lightning and sequel Gator, Paul Crewe and Coach Nate Scarborough in The Longest Yard and its...

, Jennifer Rubin, John Saxon

John Saxon (actor)

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, Claudia Schiffer

Claudia Schiffer

Claudia Schiffer is a German model and occasional actress, who reached the peak of her popularity during the 1990s, initially due to her resemblance to Brigitte Bardot. Schiffer is one of the world's most successful models, having appeared on over 500 magazine covers...

, Ray Sharkey

Ray Sharkey

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, Bud Spencer

Bud Spencer

Bud Spencer is an Italian actor, filmmaker and former swimmer . He is known for past roles in spaghetti westerns together with his long time filmpartner Terence Hill...

, Bo Swenson, Kathleen Turner

Kathleen Turner

Mary Kathleen Turner is an American actress. She came to fame during the 1980s, after roles in the Hollywood films Body Heat, Peggy Sue Got Married, Romancing the Stone, The War of the Roses, Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Prizzi's Honor...

, Christopher Walken

Christopher Walken

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, Peter Weller

Peter Weller

Peter Frederick Weller is an American film and stage actor, director and lecturer.He is best known for his roles as the title character in the first two RoboCop films and Buckaroo Banzai in the cult classic The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension...

, Ken Whahl, Stuart Whitman

Stuart Whitman

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. His directorial debut was Freddy Of The Jungle shot in 1980 and his latest Production was National Lampoons Cattle Call (2007) released in the US by Lionsgate starring Nicole Eggert

Nicole Eggert

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, Diedrich Bader

Diedrich Bader

Karl Diedrich Bader , better known as Diedrich Bader, is an American actor, voice artist and comedian. Many know him for his roles as Oswald Lee Harvey on The Drew Carey Show, Lawrence from the film Office Space, the Tae Kwon Do instructor Rex from Napoleon Dynamite, Tank "Shredder" Evans in Surf's...

, Thomas Ian Nicholas

Thomas Ian Nicholas

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, Paul Mazursky

Paul Mazursky

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 and Jonathan Winters

Jonathan Winters

-Early life:Winters was born in Bellbrook, Ohio, the son of Alice Kilgore , a radio personality, and Jonathan Harshman Winters II, an investment broker. He is a descendant of Valentine Winters, founder of the Winters National Bank in Dayton, Ohio...

. Fluent in Spanish and Italian, Josi entered the film industry as a DGA Assistant Director, then Production Manager and worked his way to become a Writer, Director and Producer. His experience ranges from Studio Pictures to Independents. Josi is a well-respected professional with an extensive track record who has made films for Paramount

Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film production and distribution company, located at 5555 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood. Founded in 1912 and currently owned by media conglomerate Viacom, it is America's oldest existing film studio; it is also the last major film studio still...

, Columbia

Columbia Pictures

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, Sony

Sony

, commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan and the world's fifth largest media conglomerate measured by revenues....

, Lorimar, Universal

Universal Studios

Universal Pictures , a subsidiary of NBCUniversal, is one of the six major movie studios....

, Cannon, Vestron, New Century

New Century

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, Vista

Vista

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, Viacom

Viacom

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 (Showtime), USA Network

USA Network

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 as well as numerous independent production companies.

On May 7, 1987 Xavier Suarez

Xavier Suarez

Xavier L. Suarez was the first native born Cuban mayor of Miami.Suarez attended the Colegio de Belen but graduated from St. Anselm's Abbey School in 1967, earned a degree in engineering from Villanova University in 1971, and later studied government and law at Harvard University...

, then Mayor of the City of Miami, proclaimed that date as "Josi W. Konski Day" for his community work. Josi is also a long time member of the Writers Guild of America West and has inked many screenplays.

Producer credits

• 2011 Sweetwater (producer) (pre-production)
• 2011 Funky Koval
  Funky Koval
  Funky Koval is a 3-part Polish science fiction/detective story/political fiction genre comic book published in People's Republic of Poland in the 1980s. It gained a cult following and is still recognized as one of the best Polish comics.-History:...
  
  (producer)
• 2011 Naked in America (documentary) (producer)
• 2006 Cattle Call (producer)
• 1999 Friends & Lovers (producer)
• 1997 Big City Blues (line producer, producer)
• 1995 Magic Island
  Magic Island (film)
  Magic Island is a 1995 DTV film released by Moonbeam Entertainment, the kidvid division of Full Moon Entertainment.-Overview:Jack Carlisle is a disillusioned 13-year old boy. His mother is always away at work since his father left. He decides to run away, as he feels his mom won't miss him. As he...
  
  (video) (line producer)
• 1990 Unlawful Passage (producer)
• 1989 Cat Chaser
  Cat Chaser
  Cat Chaser is a 1989 film directed by Abel Ferrara and starring Peter Weller and Kelly McGillis, based on the novel of the same name by Elmore Leonard. It was adapted from the novel by Leonard and James Borelli....
  
  (executive producer - as Josi Konski)
• 1989 Nightmare Beach
  Nightmare Beach
  Nightmare Beach, released in the United States as Welcome to Spring Break, is an Italian-American horror released in 1988 film directed by Umberto Lenzi, using the pseudonym Harry Kirkpatrick, and starring Nicolas de Toth, Sarah Buxton, John Saxon, and Michael Parks.-Plot:Diablo, the leader of the...
  
  (producer)
• 1989 Summer Job (line producer, producer)
• 1988 Primal Rage
  Primal Rage
  Primal Rage is a versus fighting game developed and published by Atari Games in 1994 as an arcade video game. Toys, comics, a novel and other merchandise tie-ins were also produced.-Storyline:...
  
  (producer - as Josi Konski)
• 1988 Trading Hearts (producer)
• 1988 Bersaglio sull'autostrada (producer)
• 1987 Russkies
  Russkies
  Russkies is a 1987 film starring Whip Hubley and Joaquin Phoenix . It was directed by Rick Rosenthal, with cinematography by Reed Smoot...
  
  (line producer - uncredited)
• 1985 Trinity: Good Guys and Bad Guys (line producer, producer)
• 1984 Pulsebeat (producer)
• 1983 Go for It
  Go for It (film)
  Go for It is a 1983 comedy film and spy movie parody starring Terence Hill and Bud Spencer.- Plot :The charming dodger Rosco Frazer and the recently released convict Doug O’Riordan meet each other during a rough brawl in a roadhouse. After this they drive off in a truck, each one thinking of the...
  
  (producer)
• 1983 Cat and Dog (producer)
• 1982 Banana Joe
  Banana Joe
  Joseph Montione, commonly referred to as Banana Joe, is a radio personality who currently resides in Los Angeles. He started radio when he was 13, when he set up his own radio station in his basement...
  
  (producer)
• 1981 A Friend is a Treasure
  A Friend Is a Treasure
  A Friend Is a Treasure is an Italian adventure-comedy movie directed in 1981 by Sergio Corbucci. It was filmed at Key Biscayne, Florida.- Cast :*Terence Hill: Alan Lloyd*Bud Spencer: Charlie O'Brian*Sal Borgese: Anulu*John Fujoka: Kamasuka...
  
  (producer)
• 1981 Freddie of the Jungle (producer)
• 1980 Super Fuzz
  Super Fuzz
  Super Fuzz or Poliziotto superpiù is an Italian film about Dave Speed, a bumbling Miami police officer who gains super powers through accidental nuclear exposure...
  
  (producer)

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