Makayla Sanders

Assisted producer in development and preproduction. Recruit & hire key crew positions, assisted early project needs, communicated important dates & project details/ needs, managed schedules & meetings, scouts/ walk-throughs, emails, script breakdown/ scheduling, crew recruitment catering & vendor booking

Alien Invasion (spec-commercial), Pick Up (short film) Recruited crew & assisted production, assisted auditions, script breakdown, kept productions days on schedule, production paperwork Hired and managed 25 member production/ 20 extras, assisted director, assisted 3 rounds of auditions, scheduled production days/ kept production on track, production paperwork

Company emails and phone correspondence with employees, executives, producers, clients, vendors, etc.  Legal & employment doc/ and payroll experience, Pre-pro and Production Accounting, Managed PA’s, scheduled meetings, coordinated travel, receipt filing and accounting, script breakdown, AD assistance, high administration skills  Assisted development stage, pre-production, as well as production, on-set production coordinating  Compiled Google drive production database, legal & employment documentation, payroll, office work/equipment, Microsoft office: Excel, Word, Outlook

. Assisted producers with day-to-day production needs . Recruited production crew, prepared and filed new hire paperwork . Negotiated deals with vendors, rental and equipment companies within budget

Organized production days, production coordinated project into picture, managed production needs daily

Assistant Art: Being apart of the art department can range from many aspects of arts and crafts. Duties included: wardrobe, mummy costume, props, set props, set dressing, painting, signs, shirts, blood, vampires, witchcraft dressing

Detective Ladeaux - Short Film, featured in Writer/Producer/Director Riverside City College Film Festival 2013 As the creator of the short film, I found myself producing it myself including; casting, casting rehearsal, wardrobe, scouts/ walk-through, permits, self-funded, shot list, shooting schedule, catering, etc. I also directed it, which had duties of acting, story consistency, pacing/ timing, and execution.