Education
Columbia University
Cornell University
Skills
Additional Skills
- Own a car, licensed to drive, and experienced navigating the New York and Los Angeles metropolitan areas.
- Experienced with Movie Magic Budgeting and Scheduling, Final Cut Pro, After Effects, Avid and tapeless workflows.
- Design and implement database-driven Web applications, especially WordPress custom plugins.
- Proficient in Web technologies PHP, JavaScript/jQuery, CSS, HTML, XML, JSON, Ajax, WordPress, Joomla, Google Maps API and Shopify.
- Certified in client-centered peer counseling.
Professional Film Experience: Production
Associate Producer
Produced, along with senior producer/stage manager
Richard Brick and associate producer
Jaclyn Lee, this pilot segment of a multipart miniseries directed by
Muffie Meyer. Found and managed four locations, oversaw all equipment and vehicle rentals, coordinated daily schedules, produced call sheets, and served as away-from-camera head of production during filming.
Assistant to the Producer
Spring 2009 pilot, CBS Back
Winter 2009 feature, independent Angels
Assistant to producer
Richard Brick in budgeting a film version of a Broadway musical in preproduction.
Assistant to the First Assistant Director
Spring – Fall 2009 feature, Sony The Green Hornet
Assistant to the Second Assistant Director
Spring 2009 pilot, CBS Back
Assistant to the Director
Summer 2002 feature, Fox Searchlight Thirteen
Personal assistant to director
Catherine Hardwicke from the beginning of preproduction through the end of principal photography. Also scouted locations, created props, taped auditions, and helped staff the office and set. Ms. Hardwicke received the dramatic
Director’s Award at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival, and star
Holly Hunter received an
Oscar nomination for her role in the film.
Professional Film Experience: Locations
Assistant Location Manager
Summer 2011 feature, Lionsgate Friends With Kids
Summer 2011 feature, independent Bachelorette
Location Scout
Fall 2011 feature, independent HairBrained
Fall 2010 feature, independent Generation Um...
Fall 2010 feature, independent Il giorno in più
Location scout for location managers
Kate Beall and Barry Shapiro on New York unit of Italian film.
Summer 2010 4 episodes, CBS Blue Bloods
Fall 2009 off-Broadway play Elective Affinities
Location Scout / Location Assistant
Spring – Summer 2010 feature, Warner Bros Something Borrowed
Summer – Fall 2007 4 episodes, FX Damages
Location Unit Production Assistant
Fall 2008 feature, Fox Searchlight Notorious
Spring 2008 feature, Universal Wanted
Location assistant for location manager
Keith Adams and assistant location manager
Chris Coyne on New York unit.
Location Intern
Spring 2007 feature, Sony Pictures Classics Synecdoche, New York
Professional Film Experience: On Set
Office Production Assistant / Set Production Assistant
Summer – Fall 2004 seasons 1–2, Fox Trading Spouses
Summer 2004 feature, independent A Year and a Day
Camera Assistant
Fall 2004 feature, independent Runaway
Second assistant camera for Panasonic Varicam film shot by director of photography
Frank Barrera.
Student Film Experience
Producer / Co-Producer
Fall 2008 Student Academy Award-nominated thesis film The Cemetery Club
Producer for writer-director
Yitz Brilliant with co-producer
Kelly Choyke on this
geriatric romantic comedy. In development for two years, the shoot involved three months of preproduction, 11 shooting days, 34 crewmembers, five elderly actors, two cemeteries, three jurisdictions, 24 feet of truck, 4K of HD resolution and one golf cart. The film was a national finalist in the Narrative category for the
2010 Student Academy Award.
Co-Producer for writer-director Nicole Roberts with producer
Kelly Choyke on this
religious-themed drama. The shoot spanned three months of preproduction, eight shooting days, 21 crewmembers, 12 locations, five holding areas, one knife fight, one high-speed car stunt, and 12 actors including two minors and an newborn. It is currently in postproduction and will screen in the 2009
Columbia Film Festival.
Winter 2008 thesis film The Man Who Wasn’t
Producer for the latter half of principal photography, for writer-director Kevin McCormack with producers Rashi DeStefano and
Steve Carbajal on this surreal drama. The conclusion of principal photography included filming on a snow-covered Wall Street, highway and mansion; several thousand feet of 16mm color negative; hours of latex makeup and several bursting black latex sores. It is currently in postproduction and will screen in the 2009
Columbia Film Festival.
Winter 2008 thesis film Mister Material
Producer for writer-director Fritz Meier with producer
Patrick Pineda on this
personal drama. The 16mm shoot included seven months of development, four months of preproduction, three weekends of photography with 37 crewmembers in New York and 10 in Los Angeles, nine castmembers, 14 locations, one built set, three locations standing in for Tokyo, one hostess tray and picture taxi, one sex scene and flights for five members of the company to and from Los Angeles to join a second unit there. It is completed and will screen in the 2009
Columbia Film Festival.
Fall 2007 NYU-Columbia collaborative film Undertow
Producer for director Brooke Swaney and writer
Zachary Kerschberg with producer
Patrick Pineda on this family drama uniting Columbia University producers with an NYU director and crew. The shoot involved a weekend at a Hamptons beach house in November with a climactic scene where one teenage girl swims into the ocean to rescue a younger girl from drowning; the scene required wetsuits, a licensed lifeguard, underwater housing for the camera and very trusting parents.
Fall 2007 Teen Book Video Awards commercial Runemarks
Producer for director
Filippo Conz with writer/art director Adrian Hashimi on this
trailer for the then-upcoming fantasy children’s book
Runemarks by Joanne Harris and published by Random House. The shoot included a crane jib, a built set, plenty of CGI and a puppet goblin. The trailer was a finalist at the 2007 Teen Book Video Awards.
Spring 2007 non-thesis Kiddush Man
Co-producer for writer-director
Yitz Brilliant with producer
Joshua Greenberg on this
coming-of-age drama. The shoot involved three months of preproduction, five shooting days, one synagogue, three castmembers, 16 background actors, 30 set crewmembers, 23 postproduction crewmembers including 13 musicians, one constructed light-up memorial board and two artificial palm trees. The film won a
National Board of Review of Motion Pictures Award and is currently screening at various festivals.
Summer 2006 first-year 8-to-12 film First-Time Buyer
Producer for director
Elina Fessa with writer
James Windeler on this coming-of-age drama. The shoot involved two months of preproduction, three shooting days, 18 crewmembers, seven castmembers, a health-food store in Hoboken, special props by a professional graphic designer and official product placement from Trojan condoms.
Line Producer / Unit Production Manager
Fall 2008 Sloan Foundation non-thesis film Passerine: A Bird Duet
Location manager for writer-director Denise Iris with producer
Chip Hourihan on this non-thesis film which received a
Sloan Foundation grant for a project with scientifically accurate subject matter. The film was shot over five days in the changing leaves of New York’s Harriman State Park, near Bear Mountain and Palisades Interstate Park.
Spring 2008 Sundance-featured non-thesis film Concerto
Unit production manager for director
Filippo Conz with writer
Jon Haller and producer
Pelin Uzay on this police thriller. The shoot involved five days in Queens, one picture car, one prop gun, one violin and a fake crime scene in the woods. The film played at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009.
Winter 2005 – 2006 non-thesis film Eukiah
Line producer for director
Filippo Conz with writer
Lanford Wilson and producer
Patrick Pineda on this coming-of-age thriller. The single-shot Steadicam film required two nights in a hangar full of historical aircraft at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn.
Director / Writer / Editor / Director of Photography
Summer 2006 first-year 8-to-12 film Morning Person
Writer-director with producers Noel Estrada and
Kelly Choyke for this experimental narrative shot in Manhattan’s Bryant Park.
Spring 2004 short film Akaroa
Director of photography for writer-director
Kelsey Johnson for this 16mm black-and-white coming-of-age drama. The film won first place at the Binational Independent Film Festival in El Paso, Tex., and has screened at the Route 66 Film Festival in Springfield, Ill.; the L.A. Shorts Festival in Los Angeles; and the box[ur]shorts Festival in Los Angeles and Switzerland.
Writer-director for this sesquipedalian dramedy. The film has screened at the New Haven Film Festival and the Orinda (Calif.) Film Festival.
Other Experience
Web Designer / Programmer
Spring 2011 – Summer 2011 Chic Shop
Redesigned the template and modules used by
The Manhattan Times, the bilingual newspaper of Washington Heights and Inwood with a circulation of 15,000. Collaborated with Associate Publisher
Mike Fitelson to reconceive the site layout and navigation for this
Joomla-based site.
Teaching Assistant
Assisted professor Marie Regan in the instruction of undergraduate Introduction to Film.
Projectionist
Screened films on 35mm, 16mm and digitally for Film Division classes and special events.
Teacher / Substitute Teacher
Fall 2005 – Fall 2008 Substitute Teacher
Taught all grades as a substitute teacher at various schools in New York City; New Haven County, Connecticut; and Orange County, California.
Summer 2003 Summer School Teacher
Taught a 6th grade mandatory summer school curriculum of reading, writing and mathematics to fifteen New Haven schoolchildren.