Jessie Rich

-Handling and maintaining all crew, stage and location holds for upcoming and/or bidding jobs -Booking travel and hotels for directors, executive producers, and various crew -Research for bids: research travel, hotels, locations, stages, animals, weather, equipment, and anything else pertaining to an upcoming and/or bidding production -Insurance: completing and submitting all necessary production insurance paperwork (including special coverage checklists, additional questionnaires, and liaising with foreign service companies for offshore jobs) -Union status checking for hired crew -Reporting DGA dues for directors; submitting DGA fringes spreadsheet; submitting CPLFs and any other necessary paperwork as required by the DGA -Revising deal memos for crew to include cancellation, usage, and non-disclosure language -Creating and distributing dial-in conference call notices and transcribing conferences calls -Maintaining spreadsheets to include all info for bidding and awarded jobs for multiple companies -Maintaining a weekly production schedule for jobs bidding, in production, and in post

-Clerical duties: answering high volume of phone calls, creating schedules, ordering supplies for office, researching for projects, shipping products, sorting mail, filing, light accounting assistance, assisting executive producers and head of production -Liaising with freelance production crews and assisting them with anything they may need -Keeping logs of all conference calls with agency and directors and sending out dial-ins for the conferences call

Assist 2nd AD with all paperwork, sourcing extras, making sure all talent got to set in time for their scene, picking up production supplies, making sure all contacts were in place for credits and call sheets.

Assist Production Manager with any needs, ranging from: liaising with location manager, sourcing production meals, sourcing extras, distributing paperwork, looking after talent, locking down sets/equipment, and anything else that might come up..