Climbing the Production Ladder & Starting a Writing Career, Jenny Fumarolo

International Screenwriters' Association 10 months ago

Jenny grew up a romantic inside her dad’s art studio near Chicago in a house full of hot-tempered Italians and spent the first half of her life as a singer. With a background in production, she’s organized shoots for the likes of Tarantino and Nolan on four continents to date. She channels those travels and her passionate roots into moody dramas set against evocative backdrops and bygone eras.

Jenny's goal is to match with representation, be staffed in a room, and swap IATSE for the WGA.

Jenny would like to write lit adaptation series in the vein of Outlander or The Handmaid's Tale.

 

Time Stamps:
0:00 – Intro: Passion and Breaking into the Industry
1:59 – Artistic performance ingrained in her bones (ends 2:40)
3:59 — How Parents Lent Support
4:48 –  A College Experience in Film
5:50 –  Finding Her First On-Set Job
9:03 – Maintaining Industry Connections and Keeping in Touch
10:41 – Starting in the LA Industry vs. Small Town
12:17 — Moving to LA in Turmoil
13:14 — Starting while Productions Leave Town
15:16 — First real set, sneaking her way onto set  (ends 16:55)
22:03 — COVID on Budgets
23:38– Working with Frances Mc Dormand
24:51 – If you become a director’s assistant you get really good at becoming an assistant  (ends 25:08)
25:20 – Never feeling like enough experience is enough and going out and doing it (ends 25:41)
25:49 — Shifting from Production to Writing and Set Identity
28:03 – Building a Career in Production
33:20 – Filming in Mainland China 

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