Author: Jen Prince

JEN PRINCE (Producer, Director, Editor)- Jen Prince is an independent producer who hails from south Texas, where her love for music, theatre, movies and tableside guacamole began. Jen produced and co-edited the indie feature QUALITY PROBLEMS (Chris Mulkey, Mo Gaffney, Brooke Purdy), available on VOD, winner of Best Independent Spirit Feature at Sedona Film Festival, Best Feature at Women Texas Film Festival and Hell's Half Mile Festival, among other awards and critical acclaim. Jen recently produced the feature AND THEN THERE WAS EVE, (Tania Nolan, Karan Soni, Mary Holland, Rachel Crowl) together with Jhennifer Webberley (Metamorfic Productions), winner of a Jury Award at the 2017 Los Angeles Film Festival. She produced the micro budget award-winning indie- road feature, EVE OF UNDERSTANDING (Bellamy Young, Rebecca Lowman), distributed through Vanguard Cinema and screened at over twenty festivals worldwide. Jen is currently in pre-production on her feature directorial debut, MILES UNDERWATER (2018), which received a Hometown Heroes grant from the Duplass Brothers/Seed&Spark, teaming up again with the Metamorfic filmmakers who created Quality Problems. She is a graduate of the MFA Film Production Program at USC. She received her BFA in Acting and a BA in Liberal Arts in the Plan II Honors Program at the University of Texas at Austin. Jen has also worked in post-production television. Credits include the Emmy Awards, The Contender (Mark Burnett Prods), and The Amazing Race (CBS). Jen is a mother of four boys and loves trying to keep up with them and, at times, watching the grass grow.

When you ask someone to produce your movie, it’s important to define exactly what you are asking of that person. You may not know, especially if it’s your first feature or if you’ve never produced anything yourself. You might just know that there is a whole host of things that will make your movie GO and later, FINISH. Fair enough. I’m not going to hate on you for lacking knowledge.  You know enough to know you NEED a producer.  But before you hit send on your “In Search of Producer” email, please consider a few things.  If you’ve already sent the email, consider some…

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You have a script.  Maybe you’re about to start pitching it to some people with money or maybe you are thinking about launching a crowdfunding campaign.  Either way, there are some essential questions that you can answer that will feed your project from this moment all the way to delivery. You will be asked these same questions in your crew interviews, pitch meetings, festival applications, as well as your final delivery to iTunes.  Learn to love answering these questions because if you have rock solid interesting answers to them it will help your team perform better at every stage of…

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