Getting your foot in the door, opening the door, crossing the threshold, building a sense of belonging are among the key steps for new talent to establish itself in the industry. But attaining each step is a challenge—one we hope made a little easier by career advice offered by a cross-section of producers from the ad agency, production house, TV showrunner, and feature sectors.
To help foster opportunities for those aspiring to gain a meaningful foothold in the business—and in the spirit of SHOOT’s 15th New Directors Showcase event set for Thursday evening, May 25, at the DGA Theatre in NYC—we invited agency heads of production/executive producers, production company execs spanning features, TV and commercials to offer career counsel to aspiring directors and producers.
To gain prudent career-building advice, SHOOT posed the following four questions to industry pros:
1) What advice do you have for new directors?
2) What advice can you offer to up-and-coming producers?
3) Learning is an ongoing process even for the most seasoned producer. Would you share a recent lesson learned on the job, perhaps related to a project involving new technology (i.e., VR, AR, AI, etc.) or another experience?
4) What recent project are you particularly proud of—and why?
Click here for a slideshow of survey responses, or click on the headshots below.
