Moana Casanova Email & Phone Number

Santa Monica, CA, US

Culver City, California, United States

• Production Executive on Industry Season 2, The Staircase, We Own This City, Los Espookys, and The Vanishing Half.
• Responsible for hiring production team, finding locations, vetting budgets and schedules, and troubleshooting during prep and production.
• Member of COVID Production Task Force, responsible for safely restarting and maintaining production during the Coronavirus pandemic. Sourced, interviewed, hired, and on-boarded COVID Compliance Officers (CCO) for all.

Santa Monica, CA

• Production Executive on Los Espookys and HBO Access talent development short films.
• Created, piloted, and then implemented HBO Green, HBO’s sustainable production program aimed at reducing the environmental impact of HBO productions. Spoke on the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival “Going Green.
• Oversaw Asset Management Program including coordinating ScreenBid fan auctions.

Santa Monica, California, United States

• Shadowed as a Junior Executive on The Deuce and Here and Now.
• Supported scripted programs with office and stage space searches, asset management, and onboarding; served as main liaison with Production Offices on all HBO shows.
• Led overhaul of HBO’s Production Manual and created production process efficiencies.
• Managed department interns, many of whom went on to secure fulltime positions at HBO.

Santa Monica, California, United States

• Assisted Production Executive covering The Deuce, Vinyl, True Detective, The Night Of, Boardwalk Empire, and Treme.
• Liaised with producers and production staff to ensure that studio and production needs were met.
• Created and executed philanthropy efforts for department; planned and organized department activities.
• Named by Variety as one of ten “Assistants to Watch” in the October 2015 New Leaders issue.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Managed calendar, rolled calls, updated producer lists, prepared meeting materials, coordinated travel, managed and hired interns, and tracked various domestic and international incentive programs.

Greater New York City Area

• Acted as lead assistant for OP Strategy & Planning department and provided administrative support for EVP and visiting West Coast executives including President of HBO Programming.
• Scheduled cross-departmental meetings to ensure optimal promotion of Original Programming, updated meeting agendas, and prepared/distributed notes to meeting attendees.
• Created and maintained grids tracking production, air date, and competitive scheduling information for intra-departmental use. Scheduled screenings of pre-air programming.
• Assisted with casting sessions, talent screenings, network tests, table reads and other projects as needed.

New York, NY

Los Angeles, CA

Santa Monica, CA

Ba, Film Production, Film Studies, Art History

Activities and Societies: Programmer/Event Planner, Occidental College Film Festival Vice President, Occidental College Mortar Board.

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