Sandy Salas

Write, produce, and direct first-person feature documentary film. Awarded funds and support from the Sundance DFP program. Wrote proposals and scripts, managed budget and team. Currently in production and post production.

Field producer broadcast spot for evening news.

Field produced national broadcast news, as well as corporate video segments for a variety of San Francisco and Silicon Valley-based clients, including Sony Entertainment and Bayer. Work closely with clients, ad agency, crew, and interview subjects to capture the right deliverables required for the project.

Managed the day-to-day operations for casting company. Responsibilities included bidding jobs. Prepared large-scale castings for specific talent specs producing high quality real people talent selections to support ad concepts. Clients include Apple, Reebok, Sprint, Kaiser Permanente, Blue Cross, among others. Ad Agencies include BBDO, TBWA\Chiat\Day, among others.

Served as the in-house production manager for live action shoots, promos, upfront presentations, and sizzle reels for network television. Responsibilities included; hiring and booking crew, processing talent and crew paperwork, managing and supervising shoots, coordinating and communicating with directors, subjects, and producers, scouting and securing locations.

Co-wrote, co-produced, and directed Inside Cinema weaving 100 hours of interview footage into a 24-minute documentary style TV pilot. Conducted field shoots, on-camera interviews, and narration sessions, supervised offline and online editing, music/effects spotting. Controlled and managed the administrative and financial function of the project. Scheduled and managed shoots.

Wrote, directed, and produced, original behind-the-scenes web series, commercials, promos, filmed and conducted field shoots, on-camera interviews, and narration sessions, supervised offline and online editing, music/effects spotting. Controlled and managed the administrative and financial function of all projects.

Controlled and managed the administrative and scheduling function for 3D hi-end art and animation production for video games, including Wrestle Mania 21, Terminator 3, and The Sims 2 University.

Controlled and managed the administrative, scheduling, and financial function for episodes of the show Faking It on TLC. Researched, scouted, and secured shoot locations. Controlled and managed the finances of episodes in production. Responsibilities also included, hiring and booking crew, processing talent and crew paperwork, managing and supervising shoots.