Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Thursday, July 11, 2013
Interview Forward PROMO #1
Executive Producers: Carrie Kroop and Zenobia Mertel
Produced by Christopher Robin Gallego
For promotional use only. 2013
Saturday, June 29, 2013
iCivics with Justice Sandra Day O'Connor
Creative Freelance, E.P. (Writer/Director/Producer/Editor) 2013
Monday, June 24, 2013
Summer Internship 2013: Turner Broadcasting
I first read about the opportunity in the weekly e-newsletter generated by the Arizona State University School of Theatre and Film (now the School of Film, Dance and Theatre). It appeared around mid-February and asked for a cover letter, resume and essay. I was in internship overdrive mode at the time; after updating my resume, I was cranking out 2-3 application packages a day. Having done a for-credit internship the previous summer (another blog post on that later), I understood the value internships have to offer. However, having done it for-credit (aka unpaid) last summer, I knew the only way I could afford to move to L.A. again was to find a paid internship this time around.
Now, as you may or may not know, there are in fact many paid internships in the entertainment industry- they just all happen to be at either the big studios, networks or agencies. Most every other production, distribution, marketing, PR, representation or management company offers internship opportunities; most all of them are for-credit only, and in light of the class-action lawsuit involving interns, the industry is definitely beginning to re-evaluate their internship programs.
Just like an actual job in Hollywood, these paid internships with the studios are (I assume) highly valued and extremely competitive; so, naturally, I was thrilled when I received a reply from Turner a week later to setup an interview. We setup a an interview via Skype, and after reading up on the best practices for web-based interviews, went in prepared, felt great about it, followed-up with a thank you card a week later, and at the end of the next month received the magic phone call that changed my life forever.
I guess the point of this post is this: while I feel extremely lucky to be here, there was a lot of hard work that went in to it. I applied to so many different internship postings- ABC/Disney, Sony, Paramount, Fox, CAA...the list goes on and on. I spent hours reading those articles and preparing. Deadline.com became my homepage; I even trolled back through my Facebook and Twitter feeds to manage my brand. In the end, with a lot of hard work, and a little bit of luck, I got the opportunity of a lifetime.
And now, the real work begins...
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
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