COMPANY MOVE

Hi Company Movers! Excited to bring this fun conversation to you today. Leroy grew up in Detroit, joined the military, worked in health care, moved to 8 different states, somehow found himself in production, had to go back to healthcare and now finds himself in vinter school in Walla Walla Washington. Less than 1% of winemakers in the US are Black and he is on track to join their ranks.  On the po...

Seth Farley is a native of Hutchinson Kansas. Seth was interested in the arts early in life. After graduating high school, Seth got a degree in Film and Video from Columbia College Chicago. After that he spent 15 years working professionally as a 1st Assistant Director in Film and Television and as a member of The Director's Guild of America. Seth worked on projects of all shapes and sizes. From m...

Hi Company Movers! We're working hard to finish up Season 2, so we're taking a quick break! Please enjoy Renni's guest appearane on an episode of Lost Rhetoric with Jason Dinges!  And maybe go back and listen to his episode of Company Move from Season 1: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1z4jg5qP0rEvrVWVnA2Ne9?si=WBc6belGSE6I18YYd5T5eg Follow Lost Rhetoric on Bluesky @lostrhetoric.bsky.social   Wan...

We recorded this back in the winter, so please forgive my cold ridden voice!!    Curtis Sehy studied radio and television at Southern IL University in Carbondale, IL. He has worked in public access TV, radio, broadcast TV, as an in-house videographer and a website manager.   Several years ago he transitioned away from media to recruiting. He is currently a recruiter for ALDI. He comes to Company M...

Rachel worked as a union 1st Assistant Camera in Los Angeles for over ten years on music videos, commercials, television, and movies. At the ripe age of 31, she decided that she wanted a less-stressful job...so she went back to school to be a lawyer. She's found her niche in homelessness prevention and is currently working at a legal aid organization helping low-income tenants in marginalized comm...

Musician and Author Cliff Beach has been performing live for more than 20 years. His single “Confident” was featured on Spotify All Funked Up and Funk Drive playlists with over 1M+ streams. He is the host of the Deeper Grooves Podcast and Deeper Grooves on 885FM. Beach is the author of Side Hustle & Flow, which chronicles his musical journey while still working a day job. He has written previo...

Daisun Cohn-Williams is a Los Angeles/New York City based educator, artist, workshop leader, transformational coach and founder of “Day 1 Coaching and Consulting.”  He specializes in executive functioning skill building, and teen and family mediation, communication improvement, goal setting, and habit transformation. He also works with adults seeking personal and professional transformation, and l...

We're back bay-beee! Robyn and I have been recording and editing this season since February! (with lots of detours which we will most certainly talk about throughout) We're kicking off this season with former 2nd AC Chris Friebus! Enjoy! (and share with your friends, rate and review!!)   Chris Friebus grew up fascinated by how movies and television shows were made, hoping to one day work on them a...

Renni & Robyn discuss their wins and challenges with season 1 and their goals and wishes for Season 2 (Which they have begun recording!!) They thanks the folks who helped them make the podcast look and sound so good (Cliff Beach, Gabe Rosen, Selena Persiani-Shell) and promote the other industry pivot podcasts out there: Scene Change Hollywood Second Act Club We recorded this before the horrifi...

Jason Dinges grew up in Winchester, VA just like Patsy Cline.  He got an Associates degree from the local community College before transferring to The (now defunct) College of Santa Fe, where he barely earned a  BA in the Moving Image Arts.  He moved to Portland, OR for no reason whatsoever in 2003. He ended up  playing music, touring as much as possible & then eventually finding his way onto...

Eliza is a former Portland based camera assistant, currently living in Arizona. After deciding to leave the industry in 2015 she spent two years traveling extensively in Central and South America. During that time she reembraced her life long love of drawing and painting. In the years following her travels she has dedicated countless hours to her craft, taken classes and workshops throughout the U...

Steve Vitolo is the Emmy® Award winning founder of Scriptation and is the company’s CEO. Steven leads overall strategic initiatives and has over a decade of film and television production experience. He has written for the acclaimed series Black-ish, as well as Hot in Cleveland and Crowded. He also co-wrote and executive produced the Universal Pictures romantic comedy, The List. He has been a Scri...

Emma received her BA from Hampshire College with a focus in experimental film and is a recent graduate from Adler University with a Masters Degree in Counseling and Art Therapy. Her in-depth experiences working with youth in public school systems has offered her insight into the strengths and needs of the communities she serves. She utilizes that knowledge to support youth, families and communitie...

Kathryn Brunet worked as a camera assistant in Los Angeles from 2012 to 2018. She now lives in London, working as a reference librarian at The British Library Special Collections. She also teaches workshops on western palaeography, medieval manuscript production, and printed book history. She completed a master's degree in Library and Information Science from UCLA in 2020 and a master's degree in...

The life of Matt Vaessen is a winding path of exploration and reinvention. Originally from Green Bay, WI, Matt began his journey with the U.S. Army, where he developed skills in security management before transitioning to the world of film and media. His work in production and locations departments spans numerous documentaries, films, commercials, and TV shows. Matt’s career took a new direction w...

Kyle is a musician and filmmaker who believes in the unequivocal power of story to connect people to themselves, and each other. He received his BFA in Digital Media Production from The Art Institute of Portland in 2008 and currently works as a freelance video instructor and producer - crafting socially responsible stories and teaching digital storytelling.   Kyle has spent countless hours on prod...

Eldridge “JR” Huntington and his wife, Gina, moved to Portland, OR from Chicago in 2009. Nearly a decade later, he considers himself a champion of the city. His background in film production and design - including work on local projects like Grimm and the Librarians - has found a harmonious balance with his career as a real estate agent and creator of House Hunter PDX. The creativity, multi-taskin...

Laura currently is a financial advisor with Northwestern Mutual. She has been in the financial services industry for three years now and is a board certified financial planner (CFP®) and a chartered financial consultant (ChFC®). Previous to this she worked in the camera department on films and television shows for the better part of a decade. She currently is based in Los Angeles, CA and has a wea...

Aaron Ward has always enjoyed taking care of people and really listening to what they need to feel comfortable at work and in their interactions with him.  This has been a common theme with all of his jobs-from taking care of children, managing a family owned pizza place, to his work in film as craft service and now  his new career in paratransit. He’s always enjoyed working and providing a servic...

It's been a rough couple of years for the folks behind the scenes in film and television production.  Many of us are wondering what else we can do with our skills to make money.  We interview folks who once made a living in film but found alternative career paths. And we ask them how they did it! Let's learn and grow and think of the possibilities together! Company's on the move y'all!