E25 - Indie Panel: From Pre To Post - The Details Of Being A Pro Indie Producer

The Catalyst Storieroad Institute proudly presents: From Pre to Post - The Nitty-Gritty Details of Being a Professional Independent Producer. Our guests are Kimberley Browning (HBO Access/Hollywood Shorts) and Jessica Petelle (Fox, SYFY, Viacom, Netflix).

 

Topics include:

• How to find the script you want to work on & how do you secure your job on the project?
• How do you hire all the different departments?
• Budgeting
• The day-to-day of set life
• Staying on schedule
• Post-production, Picture Lock & Music

 

Kimberley Browning is a filmmaker and film festival programmer based in Los Angeles. Originally from Washington DC, she studied music and film at University of Southern California and began her production career at Disney’s Touchstone Television. Her directing and producing credits include docuseries for A&E Networks, as well as drama, comedy and lifestyle episodic programming for broadcast and digital platforms including ABC, Rollingstone.com, CBS, Warner Brothers, Comedy Central, RealNetworks and My Damn Channel. Kimberley is the founder and festival director of Hollywood Shorts Film Festival, launched in 1998. She serves as Associate Short Film Programmer at Tribeca Film Festival, and is the Senior Programmer at Catalyst Content Festival. Kimberley is the Executive Producer of HBO Access, a directing and writing fellowship program for emerging talent from diverse backgrounds in episodic television.

 

Jessica Petelle has over fifteen years of experience as a producer of award-winning independent film, television, music videos, interactive and digital content for advertising and entertainment. As a digital content producer, she has worked with Merman to produce the award-winning interactive digital film OUTAGE for IBM. Other clients include work for Volkswagen, Comedy Central, GaiamTV.com, Fox, SyFy, BlackBoxTV among others. Over the past several years, she has felt the embrace of the vibrant filmmaking community in Canada, dedicating time and talent toward international co-production. She has served as a production consultant on FOX’s WAYWARD PINES, and SYFY/SPACE Channel series BITTEN, as a Co- Producer for two seasons of THE SHANNARA CHRONICLES for Viacom, and as a Co-Executive Producer for Netflix Original Series, V- WARS.

 

Thank you to WDSE-WRPT in Duluth and the National Academy of TV Arts & Sciences for supporting Catalyst Storieroad.