Priyal Raja Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

At CAKE Entertainment I was responsible for the day to day general admin support of the sales department. My other responsibilities included creating availability reports, maintaining client databases, sending screeners to clients, entering deal memos, checking rights on the Rights Tracker system, creating, and maintaining agendas for the sales team when they visit overseas markets. What I loved about the job was the fact that I got to have a huge insight into the Children’s Television market and learn a lot in terms of Administrative and Television Sales skills.

London, United Kingdom

I have been surrounded by a warm and welcoming team who have been incredibly supportive in teaching and guiding me in the world of Theatrical Sales.My responsibilities include inputting bookings and holdovers using MACCS and working closely and taking bookings with SSVC, Troy & Gibraltar. I take and circulate minutes in our weekly sales meeting and I update and circulate the weekly calendar sent by IBOE. I am also in charge of updating the weekly Trailers now showing document which is then used by the Theatrical department to see what eOne trailers are playing in cinemas. Reporting directly to the Theatrical Sales Manager, my focus is to assist and support the Theatrical Sales department. What I love about my job is that every day is a different day and there is always something new to learn and take in.

At Bollywood Eye I was responsible for interviewing the latest Bollywood talent that came to London for promotions. I was also in charge for keeping the website up to date with the latest Bollywood news stories. One of my key achievements in this role was to be given the opportunity to interview Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan at The House Of Commons.

Kenya

What I loved about working in Crimson Multimedia was being able to learn Theatrical Sales for the African market, which was something that was definitely a challenge. I was responsible for the daily reporting for Disney (SPARTA), Warner Brothers (EIS) & Fox (GTS) to analyse the GBO and Attendance for the targeted releases in East & West Africa. I was also given responsibility of managing and maintaining the Website and Social Media pages for the company. Other key responsibilities included creating and analysing Fact Sheets for upcoming releases, calculating a reasonable Ad Pub budget and GBO Estimates using Microsoft Excel, creating Booking Sheets per new release for each exhibitor to sign, and creating a four week Box Office GBO and Attendance estimate for upcoming releases to ensure we hit our initial estimate.

DESIblitz.com is an Aidem Digital publication. As a social media venture, the magazine aims to deliver quality rich content to primarily British Asian and Desi communities world-wide. Core objectives include providing feature stories, informative articles, exclusive video interviews and exposure to social events and cultural activities.At DESIblitz I was responsible for writing the latest Bollywood articles and interviewing any Bollywood talent came to London for promotions. What I loved about working for DESIblitz was the opportunity to grow and develop my writing and presenting skills. A highlight for me was when I was given the opportunity to interview one of my favourite director's Prakash Jha for the promotions of Chakravyuh.

Bhopal Area, India

Working with Prakash Jha Productions was a dream come true. Being given the opportunity to work with some of the best talent in Bollywood for 58 days of shooting in Bhopal, India was a priceless experience.My Roles and responsibilities were to manage all the secondary artists and some primary actors.This role would mean I would have to make sure all the actors arrived on set on time and then I would liaise with the costume and make up department to ensure everything is on time. I would then have to walk the secondary actors on set and make sure they are all present during the filming so everything is on time and not delayed. What I loved about this job is that every day I got to learn something new on set, whether it was from director Prakash Jha or even the actors which included Amitabh Bachchan. Ajay Devgn, Kareena Kapoor and Arjun Rampal.

South East, London

This position meant I was based in a retail store representing the brand Sony. My responsibilities were to motivate and train store staff on Sony TV's. I would also have to hit high sales target for the store. What I enjoyed most about this job was that thrill of having to meet a sales target because when you smash the target the feeling is even more rewarding.

London

This was my first experience working in a feature film. My responsibilities included setting up shots, dealing with extras, assisting the director and actors. What I enjoyed the most about this position was the creative atmosphere on set, which allowed me to absorb and learn a lot of skills.

Ba Hons, Film Production

A Levels, Media, Theatre Studies, Ict

Activities and Societies: Head Boy of School for year 2010 - 2011