Jim Jermanok Email & Phone Number

Greater New York City Area

Command Performance Productions is the company owned by writer, director, producer, author and speaker Jim Jermanok. We produce high-quality films, TV series, documentaries, web-series and theater. We also offer Production, Entertainment and Investment Consulting as well as writing, rewriting, producing and directing services. See www.jimjermanok.com

Greater New York City Area

BEYOND THE CRAFT: What You Need To Know To Make A Living Creatively! is an up-to-date and insider’s workshop about doing what you need to do to make a living creatively. This bottom-line and proactive book offers a unique strategy, philosophy and even vocabulary for the enormous worldwide audience of aspiring, working, and successful creative professionals and students. It is based on those habits, tools, qualities that successful creatives share and is intended to empower you to reach the next level of your career without solely relying on others: agents, managers and other gatekeepers (casting directors, producers, etc.).Using his own real-life experiences from an active and impressive 30-year career, Jim Jermanok will cover: distinguishing yourself; building confidence; obtaining and working with agents & managers; learning the business; effective networking with a simple networking system; the art of the schmooze; evaluating survival and industry jobs; new opportunities in new media, among many other essential topics. Audial Book Has Just been Released!To Purchase Paperback, Ebook or Audial Book: Amazon http://amzn.to/2hmx6YQBook Patch: http://thebp.site/87926 BEYOND THE CRAFT BOOK QUOTES"Everyone should read this book!"- MARTIN LANDAU, Oscar-winning Actor"A concise, easy-to-read and fabulously serviceable guide to finding your way round the apparently complex, baffling and unwelcoming world of the creative media. Few people are in a better position than Jim Jermanok, who has done it all, to guide the novice and even the experienced practitioner. Highly recommended."- STEPHEN FRY, Actor, Writer, Director"Jim Jermanok’s "Beyond the Craft” are the CliffsNotes for people hoping to make it in the business of creative pursuit; a MapQuest tour through the baffling and congested world of entertainment and media."-STEVE KROFT, CBS News Correspondent for “60 Minutes,” 5-time Peabody Award Winner

Jim Jermanok has made numerous appearances as a speaker, teacher, workshop instructor, panelist and moderator of panels. He has conducted hundreds of distinctive and empowering workshops throughout the world primarily on these three topics: "Beyond the Craft: What You Need to Know to Make A Living Creatively!" (the subject of his 2017 bestseller), "Making Your Projects Happen: Successful Film/TV Producing and Financing", and "The Art and Business of Screenwriting". These workshops communicate exactly which qualities and tools creative professionals and students need to achieve success and a livable income. They utilize a distinct strategy, philosophy and even vocabulary used to make a living as a creative professional for thirty years. The workshops are also intended to help liberate creative professionals from solely depending on representatives and gatekeepers such as: agents, managers, casting directors, and producers. Jermanok has spoken at Cannes, Harvard University, Yale University, New York University, The Writers Guild of America (WGA), The New School, The School of Visual Arts, Boston University, University of Pennsylvania, Digital Hollywood NY Media Summit, The Edinburgh International Film Festival, The Palm Springs Intl. Film Festival, New York Film Academy, Screen Directors Guild of Ireland, Raindance (London & NY), and the Scriptwriters Guild of Israel, among many others. Jim Jermanok’s workshop was one of the best-received workshops I’ve ever produced here at the Writers Guild of America. The feedback has been ebullient. The 75 WGA members who attended thanked me profusely, and reported being energized and inspired.– DANA WEISSMAN-SCALI, Director of Programs, WGAJim Jermanok workshop “MAKING YOUR PROJECTS HAPPEN!: Successful Film/TV Producing & Financing” was one of the best-received workshops that the Screen Directors Guild of Ireland has ever produced! – BIRCH HAMILTON, Executive Director, Screen Directors Guild of Ireland