Dana Kalmey

Shoot coordination, creating and tracking budget, insurances, negotiating with production and post crew, story development, festival submissions and strategy with Director / Producer, Rebecca Stern for documentary short that explores the kaleidoscopic world of competitive creative dog grooming. Imagine a dog groomed and dyed to look like Maleficent – transformed into a living sculpture! World Premiere 2016.

Producing, editing, archival research, proposal writing, and media management while working with Producer / Director, Dawn Porter, Producer, Marilyn Ness, Editor, Sari Gilman, and Executive Producer, Cindy Meehl. TRAPPED follows the struggles of abortion providers to keep abortion safe and legal for US women amidst growing legislative attacks on its Constitutionality. Sundance Film Festival 2016 World Premiere and ITVS 2016 broadcast.

“Meeting Your Future Self”- series of web-based short films produced for Blue Cross Blue Shield’s BeSmart.BeWell online media platform. Brainstormed story ideas with client, then provided 3 series options for their approval. Produced and edited 8 stories which seek to provide a window into the world of what it is like to have your mobility suddenly taken away from you and what it means to adjust to the world anew.

“The (Dis)Honesty Project” - Producing, editing, social media management, and graphic design for the project while working with Producer / Director, Yael Melamede on multi-platform project centered around feature documentary, (Dis)Honesty: The Truth About Lies, a film about how and why we lie, cheat, steal, and do dishonest things. Includes a website, Facebook page, YouTube Channel, traveling installation booth called The TRUTH BOX, an honesty violation pad, honesty curriculum for schools, and design / build architecture course for universities.

E-TEAM, a feature-length documentary by Directors, Katy Chevigny and Ross Kauffman, Producer, Marilyn Ness, and Editor, David Teague, about Human Rights Watch and four members of their “emergency team” as they investigate worldwide human rights atrocities; official selection and award-winner at Sundance Film Festival and others worldwide. Assisted on production shoots and throughout post-production; worked on budgets, graphic design, research, music cues, transcripts, subtitles, and online.

Writing, producing, cinematography, editing, and graphic design for entire production and post-production including interviews, games, practices, locker room meetings, home visits, and banquets for feature-length sports documentary about competitive athletes and a coach coming to the ends of their athletic careers and the struggles and hilarities that come with being a coach and father surrounded by women at home and on the soccer field. The film leads to discussions about what it’s like to be an athlete - is there a difference between male and female athletes? Currently in post-production.