Cinema and Television Producing | Marginalia

It’s no secret among my fellow producers or any regular readers here that I’m a great admirer of JJ Abrams. So you can imagine my plea..

“Smooth seas don’t make skillful sailors,” offered Katie, her words an effort to justify the madness. It’s week ten, and whether in fi..

Last time around, I introduced the first half of the latest batch of Columbia’s graduate producers. Picking a film that somehow repres..

I did it last year. Producers had to introduce themselves by means of a film that somehow represents some part of them. It was groundb..

Back to school last week. Despite that more than helpful JC Penney back-to-school commercial, I still didn’t know what to wear. I dug ..

It must be a result of having grown up exposed to so many American films, but this past summer I haven’t been able to help but feel someho..

I lost my wallet recently. It wasn’t so much a wallet like you might imagine, I dislike your typical cumbersome wallet, it was more-so..

Fireworks after the baseball game.

Because I’m asked so often about the differences between the Irish and Americans, you’d think at th..

I have been so immersed in the depths of preproduction that I’ve just had to look at a calendar to figure out how long I’ve been in In..