To begin again

I lied to get my first job in the Entertainment business.

It was 2009. I had maybe 5k in my checking account, no car, and just moved to Los Angeles after graduating from film school at Ithaca College in the midst of the Writer’s Strike and the Great Recession.

I was interviewing to be a Post PA on the first season of Parks and Recreations with Amy Poehler. I would be running around Los Angeles delivering tapes to post facilities and DVDs to the producers houses so they could give feedback on rough cuts of the episodes. I had little to no experience but interviewed well. At the end of the meeting I was asked, “You have a car, right?”

I had taken a cab to the interview.

“Yes,” I said.

I got the job.

I could have been honest and maybe lost out on the gig, but like most of us in this business I had to be resourceful.

I called my parents and told them the good and bad news. My Dad, a resourceful man himself, helped me do research on used cars while I rented one to start my first week. I finally settled on a 2007 Toyota Corolla. It runs well to this day.

Since then I have worked on such projects as Teen Wolf, Star Trek: Discovery, Leverage, and most recently Almost Paradise. I have also edited many short and feature length films.

From the beginning of my career to now, I see problems and get creative to solve them. This is why I’m an Editor.