Emily McCann Lesser
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document fileEmily McCann Lesser Résumé Jan 2018
Credits
Year | Job Title Project Type |
Project Name Director / Company |
Location |
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2018 |
Associate Producer
Television |
Random Acts of Flyness Terence Nance / HBO |
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2018 |
Co-Producer
Television |
Lenny Jason Benjamin, Christine Turner, Assia Boundaoui, Elizabeth Ito, and Jenny Gage / HBO & A Casual Romance |
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2017 |
Post Production Supervisor
Television |
Straight/Curve: Redefining Body Image Jenny McQuaile / Salty Features |
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2016 |
Line Producer & Production Manager
Film |
The Price Anthony Onah / Samuel Goldwyn Films & Orion Pictures |
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2015 |
Assistant Producer
Film |
American Fable Anne Hamilton / IFC Midnight |
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2015 |
Production Manager, Associate Producer, 2nd AD
Film |
Easy Living Adam Keleman / Easy Living Movie, LLC |
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2015 |
Production Coordinator
Commercials & Industrials |
Comcast Prodigious |
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2012 |
Production Manager
Video |
Parachute Youth / Count to Ten Ghost Robot |
Education
Year | Qualification | Where |
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2015 | French, Film Studies, Spanish, Politics, etc. | City College of New York - CUNY |
2012 | International Relations, French, and Spanish | University of St Andrews in Scotland |
2011 | Private High School | Marymount School of New York |
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About me
Emily is a NYC born, raised, and based producer. She was on the producing team of projects that have premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and South by Southwest Film Festival. Recently, Emily Associate Produced the HBO variety series Random Acts of Flyness from Terence Nance (An Oversimplification of her Beauty) and Co-Produced the HBO documentary series pilot Lenny with producers Lena Dunham (Girls), Jenni Konner (Girls), Stacey Reiss (The Eagle Huntress), Jason Benjamin (Suited), and Iyabo Boyd (For Ahkeem). Lenny premiered at the Sundance Film Festival 2018 as a special event.Previously, Emily Line Produced The Price, which premiered at SXSW 2017 and is distributed by Samuel Goldwyn Films and Orion Pictures, starring Aml Ameen (Yardie, Sense 8) and Lucy Griffiths (True Blood, Preacher). Emily Associate Produced Easy Living, which also premiered at SXSW 2017 and was produced by Laura Wagner (It Felt Like Love), starring Caroline Dhavernas (Hannibal). American Fable starring Peyton Kennedy (Everything Sucks), a film which Emily Assistant Produced, premiered at SXSW 2016 and is distributed by IFC Films.
In 2018, Emily produced Gary Jaffe and Katie Ennis’ recent short film Next Level Shit starring Ben Baur (#Adulting) and Daniel K. Isaac (Billions) and Co-Produced Brendan Walsh’s (Nurse Jackie) first feature film Centigrade with producers Molly Conners (Birdman) and Bradley Ross (The Kindergarden Teacher). Emily is currently producing at HBO documentary films, associating producing and post supervising David Gutnik’s (Nancy) narrative feature film Divided By, and developing two narrative feature films. In addition to Ira, Emily has a narrative film about the Sanctuary Movement in the 1980s in development with Ilan Arboleda (Casting By) of Creative Chaos VMG. Emily is a member of the Producer’s Guild of America. She attended The University of St Andrews in Scotland and The City College of New York.
Referees:
Please contact me for reference contact information. My references include Stacey Reiss, Ilan Arboleda, and Kishori Rajan.
Skills
Secondary Job Title | Line Producer |
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Job Titles | Producer, Line Producer, 2nd AD (Assistant Director), Production Manager, Production Coordinator, Production Supervisor, Production Support, Unit Production Manager, Content Producer, Post Production Producer |
Years in industry | 6+ years |
Organisations / Memberships | PGA |