Full stack web developer with a passion for problem solving. With experience in Ruby on Rails, JavaScript/React, and a background in documentary film, I discovered web development through my curiosity to understand how the things we use everyday work.
The Manhattan Front is an independent, microbudget feature-length film directed by Guggenheim fellow Cathy Lee Crane. Combining archival material with staged scenes, it explores the United States' period of neutrality during World War I.
During pre-production, I produced this project remotely, disseminating information to team members, establishing contracts with crew members as well as union, government and business officials, grant writing, and collaborating with colleagues to secure transportation, lodging, and meals for the cast and crew. I performed the duties of a line producer during production, managing the budget and daily operations off-set, including documentation and reporting for the production's agreements. In post, I am securing archival permissions, coordinating marketing and publicity efforts, and pitching the project to sales agents and distributors.
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Management of 85 cast and crew members from pre-production through production
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Communication of goals and director’s vision with marketing and publicity team
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Documentation and reporting for all union, government and business agreements
Including: SAG-AFTRA Ultra Low Budget, New York State Film Tax Credit, payroll
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Mediation of disputes between crew members
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Secure transportation, lodging and meals for cast and crew
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Negotiation of copyright and licensing permissions for archival music and motion pictures
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Pitch project to international sales agents and distributors
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Write grants for institutional, state, and national support
During the first year of World War I's centennial, The Manhattan Front took the form of a monthly digest of untold stories from the Great War shared on www.themanhattanfront.com. Archival newsreels, photographs and news articles were published on the site related to themes of sabotage, women's suffrage, innovation, and progressive labor politics.
Additional interactive projects, including a mobile tour of silent film history in Ithaca, NY, an interactive documentary of women labor activists, and a German code game, were developed but require additional funding for completion.
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Development and research for interactive, online projects to engage the public at large in the history of the American period of neutrality during World War I to accompany feature-length film
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Led team of programmers and researchers for monthly web updates
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Content management for WordPress-hosted website
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Acquisition of artifacts from large and small archives
