Event Details:
Date: Friday, March 5th
Time: 1pm PT / 4pm ET
Duration: 1 hrs
Location on the Festival Map: ‘The Hall’
Speaker: Meta Valentic
In partnership with South Asians In Entertainment
This Session
Assistant Directors keep the set in balance. Interfacing with every department and the cast, the AD’s manage everyone and everything in the production cycle. Meta Valentic walks us through best practices for a first time AD.
Speakers Bio
Meta Valentic began her career as the youngest member of the DGA Assistant Director's Training Program. Her assistant director credits include “Nixon”, “Castle”, “Lost”, “Bones”, and the Emmy and Golden Globe winning musical comedy “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend”.
Meta recently joined producer Sandy Climan (“The Aviator”) in Entertainment Media Management, a full service management-production company dedicated to creating groundbreaking television shows and feature films inspired by true events and real people in the espionage genre. With a network of storytellers that ranges from diplomats, to newsmakers, to world-class intelligence agents, and exclusive access to adaptations of books, articles, podcasts and real-life events, EMM is positioned to curate unique and authentic content. Meta is spearheading development and actively partnering with diverse filmmakers to boost underrepresented voices in the EMM slate.
Meta has been Producer’s Guild Diversity Workshop Fellow, and a Sundance Film Financing Intensive Fellow. She is a judge and conference panelist at the annual Austin Film Festival. Meta is active in the Producers Guild of America’s Mentorship Committee and Women’s Impact Network. Meta grew up in Washington DC and attended The Sidwell Friends School, where she developed a lifelong love of politics and Quaker values (and believes they are not mutually exclusive).
About South Asians In Entertainment (SAIE)
SAIE (and it’s womxn-forward community, South Asian Women In Entertainment SAWIE) are dedicated to using the voices of South Asian’s in entertainment and their experiences, knowledge and power to uplift each other and the next generation of talent in the entertainment industry through education, partnership, and mentorship.
About The South Asian Film Fest of America
Showcasing diversity, creativity and a multi hyphenated identity, the South Asian Film Festival of America (#southasianfilmfest) is an international screening and awards platform for South Asians to showcase their films and digital work. We're a culture-impact film festival for the new generation of South Asian creatives to share their experiences and narratives through feature films, short films, web-series, and music videos with global audiences. We welcome stories from and inclusive of individuals with South Asian heritage, the diaspora, immigrants, and from the sub-continent itself.
**This event is included in the following tickets:
South Asian Film Fest [All Masterclasses]
South Asian Film Fest [ALL Screenings + Q&As + Masterclasses]
