The following post was sent out to the Actor’s Fund participants as part of their ”Jobs Bulletin” last month, but I think it’s an important accompaniment to this post I did not long after the event referenced and that readers here – actors and others pursuing “dream jobs” – would get a lot of value from it. Please feel [...]
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Multi-hyphenate Risa Bramon Garcia is perhaps best known as a casting director whose first film credit was for DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN and who went on to do WALL STREET, SOMETHING WILD, FATAL ATTRACTION, BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY, JFK, TRUE ROMANCE, JOY LUCK CLUB, FLIRTING WITH DISASTER, and NATURAL BORN KILLERS, among others. She [...]
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Today’s profile subject is one of the rare people who took a strategic and direct path from college to doing exactly what he wanted to be doing. The struggle came much later, when it stopped being exactly what he wanted to be doing. The opportunity to do a commercial theatrical production of one of his works [...]
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I know by now (2nd week of 2011) you are probably wondering, “Where’s all that new content she’s been hyping on the Facebook page and on Twitter?” I know, I know… but it’s coming! I’ve interviewed some great entertainment industry professionals – with many more to come. I’ve got some fantastic entertainment career advice in the works. [...]
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Dear Jenny, I moved from Europe (London & Paris) to Toronto, Canada, where I’m currently working as a director for TV commercials. I’d like to work in fiction (film, episodic TV) both in Canada and L.A. What should be my next step ? Should I do a short film? I hear those are no longer [...]
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Though Robert Walters launched his entertainment career in NY while in grad school and then lived in Los Angeles for a few years, he is a great example of someone who has connected with existing entertainment-related opportunities in his “outside LA” area and formed his own creative community for getting his stories out there. Robert is [...]
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Though Robert Walters launched his entertainment career in NY while in grad school and then lived in Los Angeles for a few years, he is a great example of someone who has connected with existing entertainment-related opportunities in his “outside LA” area and formed his own creative community for getting his stories out there. Robert is [...]
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Roger Nygard has become a successful feature documentary filmmaker, and director and editor on episodic television series including ”The Bernie Mac Show,” ”The Office,” and ”Curb Your Enthusiasm,” but his entertainment career path was not a smooth one. In his profile, he talks candidly about his early struggles, and about how he turned a loan from his mother into much-needed career-stability. Current project: My latest documentary, THE NATURE OF [...]
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Actress Jennifer Dawson is a perfect example of someone who launched their entertainment career from afar and then, with some professional experience under her belt, relocated to Los Angeles to make it big in her chosen profession. She has also utilized modern technology and her growing network of talented friends and associates to create and star [...]
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After initially being both underwhelmed (by the work choices) and overwhelmed (by the scope of the industry) when she arrived in Hollywood, Henri Hebert found a way to use her technical and storytelling skills in a way which serves her personal passion, providing a voice to children. Her path to where she is today, [...]
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