A huge part of me won't let go of the idea of being part of it all - I love film, like I love art and people and music and architecture. And I love that buzz of the feeling of being a small but essential cog in an amazing and exciting wheel doing something worthwhile - creating stories with moving pictures - good ones, great ones that people will enjoy and appreciate and talk about and recommend to their friends and get something out of and remember...
But I haven't come close to feeling that about any of the jobs or companies I've seen advertising out there since I started looking in May - everything content-wise has seemed dummed down for multichannel TV or no/low pay because it's 'only' for the web or no point in applying there'll be yet another media graduate who's dead keen to fit in and get on and who's expected to want to work just for the priveledge... regardless of what they might be able to contribute given half a chance.
This morning I was somewhat shocked out of my numbness -
check out slingshot-studios.com.
A small, dynamic, forward-thinking, full of ideas, networked up company with a great team spirit and a clear vision of what they're trying to do - dedicated to finding new and innovative ways of working in and around the British film industry, financing and producing a slate of ten microbudget feature films over the next three years and handling the UK release of 10-12 films per year.
Led by a CEO, Arvind Ethan David, who isn't afraid to show a more personal side of the company and say what he honestly thinks in an interesting blog right on Slingshot's website, their films currently in development have challenging storylines and non-cardboard protagonists and I genuinely look forward to seeing them on the other side - onscreen.
Slingshot's production assistant, Kate Brokaw, is returning to New York after a year helping their microbudget all digital feature films through development and production to distribution. Kate sounds great - amazing, brilliant and dedicated in Arvind's own words - organised, enthusiastic, valued part of the Slingshot team, intelligent, critical, creative, full of ideas... I like all those words - a lot of them are in my cv and I'd love to use them like Kate has to help facilitate something as challenging and complex as making great narrative films.
Kate obviously can't literally be replaced, but Slingshot placed an ad on mandy.com in an attempt to find someone to at least try and fill the gap she will leave in December. By lunchtime, they'd removed the link to apply for the chance and I imagine they were already inundated with hundreds of cvs.
In the meantime, I'd written some new text for their website - just click
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Michelle Rumney
Producer's Assistant
Michelle is Producer's Assistant at Slingshot, working across development, production and distribution.
Prior to joining Slingshot, Michelle worked as an independent producer on low-budget documentaries for satellite tv and broadband internet. She began her career in TV and film post production, working at Framestore CFC as an SFX/edit assistant for several years. She then moved into production for new media, managing projects including online media management and software development to improve digital production workflows. She studied film and photography at PCL, now the University of Westminster, and has a Masters Degree in Fine Art from Winchester School of Art.
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