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Per Schoony’s request, here are my posts about my internship at Focus Features. July 11th 2011: What An Acquisitions Intern Does As an acquisitions intern I get to screen DVDs and write coverage. During the Los Angeles Film Festival, I had the opportunity to go see both short films and feature lengths. Not the most […]

So maybe I went a little over the top with the title of this post, and I don’t exactly have so much experience that I know exactly what it takes to be the best PA ever down to a T, but, I think I have worked enough to give some overall decent advice on being […]

The beginning of November marked the beginning of my 6th month out here in LA, and it feels like the past months have flown by but at the same time it feels like it has been forever since I packed up my car and made the trip out here. It’s hard to keep track of […]

I got this PA job in a kind of random way. I received a facebook post that included someones name, their email address and that they needed a PA. So I emailed this random person, said I was available, and I got the job. Oh yeah, but it was unpaid, but sometimes when you’re just […]

So I got some pretty good hands-on experience working on a blast for the network, which was pretty interesting. A blast (I’m sure other networks call them something else, but whatever) in our case meant “a behind the scenes look at a film” where you take footage from the film and slice it together with […]

Last week the order came down that we needed to start work on “The Database.” This meant that the lowest level employee  (basically a paid intern) got to bust my behind for a week straight while I scoured the servers looking for every single piece of media that had ever been worked on- including a […]

Got an email a few days after I finished working at my internship from the head editor of the company. Turns out he quit less than a week after I left. Can’t say I’m surprised. The workplace culture of fear there was just backwards and irrational- he was overworked, largely ignored, and constantly treated like […]

So working at my internship, there were certainly all kinds of little things to complain about. Keeping all of the footage on-network was not a good idea. We were hilariously understaffed. We could have used faster computers but again, these are all little issues, that you can deal with, and we dealt with those. But […]