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Getting Ready for the Holidays and 2026
I like to send real handmade holiday cards to my family, friends and business associates. In the olden days I used to have about 75 names (!) on my personal card list. Design tricks included carving a custom stamp or cutting a stencil to add to folded cardstock (I liked runes), so I could make a bunch quickly. These days my list is a lot smaller, but my process is still simple. I use printed…
More on Metrics for your Resume
I wrote an article for LinkedIn. It tells you about the kind of records you should keep, and gives some suggestions for getting around confidentiality or unavailable data. I will expand on the article here to talk about filmmaking specifically. Quick Recap: Metrics is the shorthand term for how you express your achievements with numbers on your resume. Their greatest value is that they are…
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Style Mirroring for Customization
I’m currently investigating a new tool that might make resume customization simpler and faster. Yes it is an AI tool – not ChatGPT, but something more specialized. Here’s what I know about job searching today. There are ever more tools, apps, services, and shortcuts proliferating like lichen across rocks – that may or may not be high quality; AI generated resumes may or may not help your…
Finding work in an era of Runaway Production
History When I first started in the business in Los Angeles in 1994, people were grumbling about “runaway production”. Back then this mostly meant feature films primarily shooting in Canada while doubling Toronto, Montreal or Vancouver for US cities or towns. The films I worked on were low budget, what used to be called “direct-to-video”, and did shoot and do their post locally, although every…
How to Find the Pain Points in a job listing - and what to do next.
Original Image by Gerd Altmann  https://pixabay.com/users/geralt-9301/ The primary goal of your resume and cover letter is to get you an interview for the job that you believe will be right for you, at a company that is a mutual good fit – that is you fit their needs and their culture fits your needs. Let’s look at the structure of a typical job listing. Today’s recruitment software, usually…
Filmmaking Grants Resources
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Sayla U’ilani Whalen, one of two recipients of Women in Media’s Developing Filmmaker Fellowships, funded by a grant from the California Arts Council, that I wrote. Hi jobseekers, Today’s blog is a resource round up of film grants. A couple of my favorite sites are below but I’ve also put together even more as a PDF for you. Sign up and grab it here.I’ve included links to some sites with…
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"A Confused Buyer Always Says No"
Photo by Yan Krukau via Pexels.com I have come to the realization that I say this at least once to every client or potential client. That must mean that it’s an important idea. I have always said that we can learn a lot from marketers and sales people. For example your resume is the equivalent of the Features of the product; your cover letter elucidates the Benefits of the product. In the case…
What do hard days look like to you?
I enjoy Mel Robbins. Her work is all about personal growth using science backed strategies. She spends a lot of time talking to researchers and examining data from studies in psychology and biology. Among other things, she talks about the right way to visualize your future. I’ll paraphrase. It’s not enough or even optimal, to just visualize crossing the finish line. The way to use visualization…
AI wants my job - sorta.
Well, it looks like AI has decided to take over a good part of my job. LinkedIn has a new Premium (paid) feature called “Tailor my resume to this job” along with a function called “Sparkle” that gives you “personalized insights” into the advertised job. That includes pointing out the “gaps” in your resume or experience. It talks about “keywords”. It’s nice to have what I have been saying for…
The Current State of Things
Fair warning! This post has a lot of data in it. Not everyone is interested in that. TL;DR – People are struggling – despite perceptions, the data shows most of the US production and post work such as it is, is still in California – some roles are getting paid less on average than they were – the future may not be as gloomy as some fear – more information on trends is coming. The old ways of…
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How to Choose a Writers' Group
I’ve been a member of the Women in Media writers’ program for a couple of years now, and I love it. The various members of my feedback group – which has not been static – have all been extremely talented and extremely kind. The feedback is always in the direction of improving our writing – it’s never petty or mean spirited and that has been absolutely crucial. The other writers’ group I am in,…
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Grants as a Filmmaking Funding Strategy
The longer your film, the smaller the proportion of your budget is likely to come from grants. But even an indie feature might benefit from including grant seeking as part of their funding strategy, and documentary shorts might be able to cobble together several grants to cover a high proportion of your planned costs. Overview of grants There are several broad types of grants which generally…
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The New Year is coming
With the New Year, I expect a surge of new and resumed production as the production entities scramble to fulfil their content contracts and the networks and studios push to retrieve their viewers. How is your resume looking? I was intrigued by a couple of articles in different sources (here’s one) talking about the streaming services bundling themselves. I’m not a business expert, but as an…
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The Writers Strike Back
I stand with the WGA, not least because although not a member, I hope to be one day. Writer’s picket line signs are the best. Here is to a side-by-side comparison of the WGA members’ proposals and the counter offers or stance of the AMPTP on each issue. Smarter people than me have run the exact numbers and determined these different percentages for fee and wage increases that fit with…
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What's next in Recruiting and what it means to you.
MOON is a short film I worked on in 2021 directed by Toy Lei. Photo by James Coburn. LinkedIn has released its 2023 “Future of Recruiting” Report containing several predictions about hiring and recruitment in the next few years. It’s a quick read in infographic presentation style and contains plenty of statistics from LinkedIn’s survey research. Some information applies to the professional…
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Word of the Year
This will apply across my whole life – my career, my schedule and planning, my arts and writing practices, and both my personal and professional spaces. Do you know there are still boxes unpacked from when we moved here 9 years ago? I don’t want the tenth anniversary of our new home to pass with unwanted baggage weighing down my psyche. Reset – feels right! Do you use a word of the year as a…
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Analyze a Job Listing Quickly
This post as a Word Cloud I recently found a great new tool to make breaking down a job listing for keywords that much quicker. To fully understand both the predominant emphasis of duties as well as the keyword loadings needed for resume customization, I had been using the word search function within a word document to count the words. Pretty manual and time-consuming, but less so than a…
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