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Master Class

Doc U: Producing Master Class with Paula DuPre’ Pesmen

3470 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 980, Los Angeles CA 90010

What You Will Learn:

The right producer can take your vision and nurture it throughout the filmmaking process, ultimately helping you to make the best film possible and giving you the greatest chance for success. In the course of a decade, Paula DuPre' Pesmen has established herself as just such a producer. Working with three first-time directors, her astonishing track record includes this year's highly acclaimed Keep On, Keepin' On, the Academy Award®-winning The Cove (2009) and Sundance award-winning Chasing Ice (2012). In this Master Class on Producing, Paula will share her insights into what it takes to establish and maintain strategically vital relationships, successfully manage and maximize budgets, and squeeze the full creative potential out of each of her films.

For all those who have ever asked, 'What does a producer do exactly?', this Master Class is for you!

Who Should Take This Master Class:

  • Directors who want to learn when it makes sense to bring on a producer and how best to work with a producer
  • Associate Producers seeking to learn the ins-and-outs of producing and move up in the ranks
  • Producers seeking to work with directors of varying experience levels, from first-timers to seasoned professionals
  • Documentary film students and others who wants to develop a keener understanding of how producing works

Built into the Master Class will be a generous amount of time for Q&A.

The use of cameras, audio recording devices, and video recording devices is prohibited at Doc U events.

Paula DuPre’ Pesmen

Since 2005, Paula DuPre’ Pesmen has produced the renowned documentaries Keep On Keepin' On (Tribeca Audience Award 2014 and Seattle Film Festival Audience Award 2014), Chasing Ice (Sundance Film Festival Cinematography Award 2012 and SXSW Audience Award 2012) and The Cove (Academy Award® Winner 2009 and Sundance Film Festival Audience Award 2009.)

Pesmen’s prior background was in features, as an Associate Producer on the producing team of such films as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Rent, Mrs. Doubtfire and Stepmom. She was honored with the 2010 Producer of the Year Award by the Producer’s Guild of America. In June, 2011, DuPre’ Pesmen was named a Local Hero in Oprah Winfrey’s O Magazine.