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Los Angeles

New York City Metropolitan Area

Audiovisual asset research & acquisition for Kennedy docuseries.

North Hollywood, California

Audiovisual asset research & acquisition for The Bloody Hundredth documentary.

New York, United States

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

Hunting for haunted locations and researching paranormal stories for the Ghost Adventures Halloween Special

Los Angeles, California, United States

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

Audiovisual asset research & acquisition for Demon in the White House docuseries.

Berlin, Germany

I write and edit log lines, film synopses, and other related marketing material for this international film distribution firm based in Berlin, Germany.

Copenhagen, Capital Region, Denmark

Provide copy and content editing for grant applications and articles emerging from research projects. MAD is an interdisciplinary research group focusing on experience design and practice-based research in domains such as cultural heritage, art, and the creative and cultural industries. MAD is the coordinator for the Horizon 2020 project GIFT: Meaningful.

Oslo, Norway

Working closely with staff researchers, authors, and editors, I perform developmental, copy, and content editing for a variety of articles and book-length manuscripts published or funded by the National Library of Norway. Titles include Nordic Whiteness and Migration to the USA: A Historical Exploration of Identity, edited by Jana Sverdljuk, et alia; and.

Copenhagen Area, Denmark

I perform developmental, copy, and content editing for book-length projects, journal articles, and dissertations written by scholars in the Film and Media Studies and other departments at KU, including Northern Lights (2006), Arild Fetveit, Editor, University of Copenhagen Press, (2007); and Evolving Digital Repertoires of Contention in Transitional.

Developmental, copy, and content-editing for book-length projects, articles, and dissertations written by researchers at the University of Oslo, including: Thinking Media Aesthetics Media Studies, Film Studies and the Arts, edited by Liv Hausken, Peter Lang Press (2013).

Greater Los Angeles Area

Supported the launch and ongoing implementation of the National Institutes of Health’s All of Us Research Program for Wondros, a creative agency in Los Angeles. Contributed creative research, copywriting, copy editing, fact-checking, reports, decks, and “snackable” facts around precision medicine; systems analysis, user experience analysis, and keyword.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Copy and content editing, proofreading, medical term verification and localization for drug trial medical reports translated from a multitude of world languages for Amgen and other biopharmaceutical firms conducting medical trials.

www.amesto.no

Officially approved and sanctioned copy, content and style editor for doctoral dissertations and master's theses written for Pacifica Graduate Institute's programs in Depth, Clinical and Counseling Psychology, Mythology and the Humanities. I also provide coaching services for writers at earlier stages of their projects.

Prague, CZ

Co-wrote award-winning screenplay in collaboration with director and producer (principal photography completed July, 2010) "PARTITION".Wrote synopses and treatments for developing film on the 1968 Soviet crackdown in Prague for MEDIA funding application. Ongoing engagement including script polishes and original screenplay authoring.

I copy and line edit grants and proposals for this global conservation non-profit on an on-going and as-needed basis. I've also acted as consultant and advisor for a documentary film production shot in Malawi, Africa. Discussing future collaborations of this nature.

Production Manager for "Fez: Queen of Cities" tour premiere performance at UCLA's Royce Hall, November 15, 2008. Supervised, coordinated and collaborated with paid and volunteer staff, including American dance troupe blue13, the Moroccan-French ensemble Moultaqa Salam, and Moroccan-American bands AZA and Loud Oasis. Worked mainly on logistics.

Supported distribution and PR for the film "STEALING AMERICA: Vote by Vote," Dorothy Fadiman (director), Mitchell Block (executive producer). Edited, wrote and supervised the creation of press kit including production notes, key art and movie website.

Created a look and feel video based on existing footage and photographic stills, cut to the composer's music, for use in the development package. Assisting with fundraising efforts.

I assisted Grammy nominated film composer Stephen Endelman while he created the original film score for writer/director Zak Penn's improv comedy THE GRAND (2007). Created word-map of director's musical ideas tied to the time-code of the work print, created cue sheets and generally assisted with sounds, themes and musical research.

I prepared and edited David's motivational/coaching videos for the web and for sale as a DVD.

I taught a summer course in Screenwriting at a small American university in Rome, Italy.

I created several short documentary videos depicting the environment and milieu of John Cabot University, including the ancient Roman neighborhood of Trastevere, and the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Supported senior VP, rolled calls, maintained schedule, booked travel, wrote correspondence. Temporary cover for maternity leave.

During my graduate study of Film and Rhetoric, I held the position of Graduate Research Assistant for the Chair of the Program in Film Studies and I taught courses in Critical Thinking and Composition, Religious Studies, Film Studies, and Documentary Production.Courses: The Scandinavian Super/Natural, Myth Into Media, The Art, Craft and Politics of.

Created short films, demos and trailers for independent film professionals, including "If She Only (2004)" (with singer/songwriter Jenn August), "Under the Paving Stones (2003)" (with poet/scholar Johan Andersson), and "Jouisseance. (2002)."

Greater Los Angeles Area

Worked as Associate Producer and then Producer for several emergency simulation games at Legacy Interactive in Hollywood, including Code Blue, Emergency Room 3, and Vet Emergency. I was the lead Producer for Vet Emergency in which I created the game document, character bios, scenes and scenarios, hired and supervised WGA writers to fill out the shooting.

Phd, Rhetoric (Critical Theory), Film Studies

Activities and Societies: Phi Beta Kappa, Society of Cinema Studies, Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian StudiesAdvanced to.

Certificate In Cinema Production, Cinematography And Film/Video Production

Ma, Department Of Rhetoric, Program In Film Studies

Activities and Societies: Phi Beta Kappa, Inducted Spring 1997; Fernström Travel Grant for study in Denmark, 2002 and 2004Master's.

B.A., Rhetoric And Religious Studies (Double Major), 3.98

Activities and Societies: Phi Beta Kappa, Co-Editor of Berkeley Undergraduate JournalHonors in Rhetoric, Highest Honors in Religious.

Great Books Program (Ancient Greek To Early Modern)