Charlie Kaufman

★ Facilitate creative direction across all project operations, contributing talent, business strategy, and extensive industry experience to conceptualize, launch, and manage distribution processes. ★ Collaborate with vendors and sub-vendors to execute localized distribution, directing between 150 to 200 versions for each film through domestic and global lines. ★ Manage subtitle, censorship compliance, and localized inserts specific to each country’s distribution and branding requirements. ★ Expertly create critical keys while interacting with studios to manage content encryptions. ★ Develop and nurture critical relationships with directors and film makers to ensure product deliverables that align creative vision with the highest visual and audio quality. ★ Logistically coordinate internal teams to validate timelines through open communications with studio representatives and timely interdepartmental distribution among marketing and internal teams. ★ Protect stakeholder interests by generating content orders that clearly communicate expectations, overseeing deliverables for quality control and timely shipping of film deliveries into the digital file. ★ Cement reputation as an industry leader by proactively coordinating approval of IMAX DMR processes and localized versioning while tactfully and effectively managing client interaction. ★ Project manage screenings for studios, VIP clients, and press events. ★ Delivered expertise and commitment to success to notable projects, including STAR WARS: The Force Awakens  STAR WARS: The Last Jedi  The Revenant  Deadpool  Zootopia  Justice League  The Jungle Book  AVENGERS: Infinity War  Finding Dory  Star Trek Beyond  Sully  Doctor Strange  Logan  Beauty and the Beast.

Accountable for all operations while delivering crucial support during the director’s absence. ★ Directed operations from tracking script to executing written script changes and managing story responsibilities during meetings between directors and story artists. ★ Recorded meetings through detailed note taking and ensured timely distribution to appropriate team members, delivering accurate editorial work across multiple projects simultaneously. ★ Delivered comprehensive support for the development team that included story content development to maximize audience engagement. ★ Tactfully and professionally managed all administrative duties while running the desk of Producer, Associate Producer, and Director that included rolling calls, managing schedules, coordinating travel, creating expense reports, and communicating directions as required throughout production. ★ Coordinated everyday needs to ensure success for 5 disparate production projects, processing story boards, organizing scripts, controlling the production calendar, assisting producers and supervisors, and ensuring production databases were accurate and up to date. ★ Screenwrote “CAMEL RUN” short for “SING” film’s 2017 release. ★ Contributed vision and expertise to notable projects that include MINIONS, Secret Life of Pets, Sing, Despicable Me 3, and Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas

★ Facilitated comprehensive oversight and management of production operations by engaging global teams to ensure smooth production schedules in keeping with industry standards and stakeholder expectations. ★ Fostered clear and effective communications among teams in China and the U.S., ensuring video equipment and transfer stations were aligned for unified presentations. ★ Collaborated with high-profile VIPs, executing daily administrative tasks to ensure key stakeholders’ focus on critical, creative tasks that furthered production. ★ Worked closely with story artists to ensure understanding of job targets and deadlines, communicating among departments while managing interactions between the studio and creative leadership. ★ Contributed to all things story and editorial, including script organization, storyboard management, and ensuring a superior and positive artist experience. ★ Successfully managed central P.A. responsibilities that included controlling the production calendar and facilitating the needs of the Art Department while pioneering the ODW pipeline. ★ Coordinated scratch recordings, personally performed booth recordings, and cast for parts through multiple projects, that includes a full in-studio recording.

Anchor, Writer, Producer, Editor and Videographer. Emphasis on sports and community issues.