Years ago, I wanted to hire Andew Paskoff before I’d even met him, before he’d even landed in Los Angeles a few years out of college to work in the industry. I did not get the chance and I lost track of him for a while, but thanks to the wonders of social media, we [...]
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A love of food and cooking combined with what she felt was her destiny (a career in showbiz, just like her producer parents) led today’s profile subject to a career she loves. The first hurdle was finding out about the existence and role of the food stylist and culinary producer in the world of TV, film, [...]
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It was a big coup for Your Industry Insider to talk with Judith McHale, the longtime head of Discovery Communications who was instrumental in taking them from a 30-person single channel operation into a global media powerhouse. It’s not often you get to hear success strategies from someone who led that kind of monumental growth. [...]
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Today’s profile subject came to my attention through a very thoughtful piece he did on entertainment trade site, The Wrap. In it, he mentioned being from a one stop-light town and having over 40,000 Twitter followers. The juxtaposition of those two tidbits, small town kid comes to the big city and makes a splash on [...]
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This is our third Entry Point profile, stories of people breaking in and landing their first paid post-college job in the industry. This one is particularly near and dear to Your Industry Insider, as I was briefly an assistant property master very early in my career. Also, today’s subject, Jeremy Bond, identified what he wanted to do while [...]
Read More →Though all of the “Industry Pro” profiles that appear on Your Industry Insider have something to teach us about our own professional lives, these five profiles from 2012 have been chosen for the qualities the profile subjects embodied on their way to reaching an entertainment career goal. TV Host & Style Expert Alison Deyette was strategic in her thinking [...]
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Music has enormous power. Even though you are not creating the narrative as a director does, you are helping determine the pacing, the tone, and the emotional impact of a scene. The right music can make a punchline funnier, a death more heartbreaking. Today’s Industry Pro has worked on TV, movies, and video games. His work ranges from a trailer for [...]
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Looking at the current career of today’s industry pro from the outside, it’s hard to tell where she started, what angle she approached from. Was she a trained actress? A fashion school grad who applied her expertise wherever she could? Did she aim to be the next Oprah? (Hint: All of those guesses were incorrect.) Regardless [...]
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Here at Your Industry Insider, we love to shed light on professions within the industry which people might be curious about, but for which little information exists. Game show writer/producer Ryan Hopak has worked on some of the top shows in his genre, including “Survivor, ” “Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?,” and “Jeopardy!” [...]
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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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