---
name: "Iya Labunka"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/iya-labunka"
roles: ["Producer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 70
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-19T15:56:01.047182+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Iya Labunka

Producer.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Active:** 1989–2011
- **Also known as:** Irene Labunka
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 3: 2 producing, 1 other
- **Average Fi1m score:** 70, as producer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 80 (1), 2010s 60 (1), 2020s 66 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20894427, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0479757/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1312509

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Scream 4*](https://film.one/film/scream-4.md) (60)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Iya Labunka is a film producer and production manager, also credited as Irene Labunka. She began her career in the early 1980s with roles including production assistant and production coordinator on films such as *Repo Man* (1984) and *Invaders from Mars* (1986). She advanced to production manager and associate producer credits on *Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives* (1986), *Stand and Deliver* (1988) and *Heathers* (1989).

Labunka produced *My Soul to Take* (2010) and *Scream 4* (2011). She has additional credits as line producer, co-producer and unit production manager on titles including *Bad Influence* (1990), *Meet the Applegates* (1990) and *The New Age* (1994).

She was married to director Wes Craven from 2004 until his death in 2015.

*Sources: imdb.com, the-numbers.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (3)

### Produced (2) — the average rests on these

- *Scream 4* (2011), Fi1m 60, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/scream-4.md)
- *Heathers* (1989), Fi1m 80, Production Manager — [page](https://film.one/film/heathers.md)

### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *Scream* (2022), Fi1m 66, as Party Guest (voice) (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/scream-2022.md)

## Complete filmography (14)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Scream* (2022), as Party Guest (voice) (uncredited) — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/scream-2022.md)
- *Scream 4* (2011), Producer — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/scream-4.md)
- *My Soul to Take* (2010), Producer
- *The New Age* (1994), Co-Producer
- *Meet the Applegates* (1990), Associate Producer
- *Bad Influence* (1990), Unit Production Manager
- *Heathers* (1989), Production Manager — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/heathers.md)
- *Stand and Deliver* (1988), Associate Producer, Production Manager
- *Jason Lives - Friday the 13th Part VI* (1986), Production Manager
- *Invaders from Mars* (1986), Production Coordinator
- *Love Letters* (1983), Production Coordinator
- *Blood Song* (1982), Production Assistant
- *Galaxy of Terror* (1981), as Prosthetics
- *Untitled A Nightmare on Elm Street Film*, Producer

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