_a resume.
contact:
jlesage@brokenlens.com
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_a resume. |
| James LeSage | contact: |
_Check out my online reel. downloadable resume (Microsoft Word): JamesLeSage_resume.doc (32k) |
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| _Education | ||
| Emerson College (3.4 GPA)- emphasis in Film (Boston, MA) _2000-2004 | ||
| Summer 2003 - studied at FAMU film school in Prague, Czech Rep. | ||
| Summer 1999 - Governor's School of the Arts, NJ - theatre/acting | ||
| _Production Work (NYC) | ||
| Staff PA | New Amsterdam | 3/07 |
| Staff PA (paperwork) | Law & Order - Season 17 | 9/06-present |
| PA | Before the Devil Knows You're Dead | 7/06 |
| PA | Rescue Me | 7/06 |
Staff PA |
Illegal Tender | 5/06 - 6/06 |
| PA | I Think I Love My Wife | 5/06 |
| PA | Pride & Glory | 5/06 |
| PA | David Blaine "X Show" (Drowned Alive) | 5/06 |
| 1st AD | Feliz Navidad - indie feature | 3/06-4/06 |
| PA | Reign Over Me - dir. Mike Binder | 3/06 |
| PA |
Conviction - NBC | 1/06-5/06 |
| Staff PA | “Once Upon a Film” | 12/05 |
| PA | Across the Universe - dir. Julie Taymor | 11/05 |
| PA | Margeret - dir. Kenneth Lonergan | 11/05 |
| Set Dresser | American Heart Assoc. Banquet (High Output) | 05/2005 - Boston |
| PA | Sarah McLauchlin “Stupid” music video - dir. Sophie Muller | spring 04 - LA |
| PA | ESPN.com commercial – dir. Liam Lynch | spring 04 - LA |
| PA | Sprite commercial | spring 04 - LA |
| PA | Chromeo music video | spring 04 - LA |
| PA/Post PA | Dirty: Ol’ Dirty Bastard Live DVD | Spring 04 - LA |
| _Work Experience | ||
| Office and Production Intern at Oil Factory Music Videos in LA | Spring 2004 | |
| Office and Production Intern at Juggernaut Media in LA | Spring 2004 | |
| Herrell’s Café in Allston, MA | August 04 – Oct 05 | |
| Supervisor at J.P. Licks in Boston, MA | September – Dec 03 | |
| bus boy at Hard Rock Café in Boston and Atlantic City | May 01 – May 03 | |
| _Creative Jobs and Projects | ||
| Producer / Editor / DP / FX | The Works of Jeffrey Dali - commissioned by the artist | 11/05 |
| VJ | over 20 shows in Boston @ Enormous Room, Modern, Bill's Bar, etc. | 2004-2005 |
| Wr/Dir/Prod/Art/Edit/FX/Animator | Sym Odyssey - feature length Sci-Fi, live action animation | POST PROD |
| Animator / Yeti Costume / Art / Actor | Yeti - comedy/horror, 24p digital, feature length | fall 04 |
| Animator | African Charity Documentary | fall 04 |
| Art Dept / Costume | The Caregiver - 16mm monster film, 15 min. | summer 04 |
| Writer / Director / Prod. / Editor | Childproof Locks - dogma95 style, miniDV, 60 min. | summer 04 |
| Videographer | Untitled Buddhist Documentary | summer 04 |
| VJ | 5 shows as one of few VJs in Boston | 2003 |
| Video Editor | study by the Marine Fisheries division of NJ govt. | 12/03 |
| Writer / Stop Motion Animator | Mad – surrealist 16mm film, 15min. | Fall 2003 |
| Director | Superhero Shapiro – 16mm film, 13 min. | spring 2003 |
| Director | Pop Song – DV, 12min. | 7/03 |
| Writer / Dir. / Prod. / Edit / Actor | Normal Being - dramatic short, miniDV, 25 min. | summer 01 |
| Director | Film Fanatics cable access film criticism show | spring 2000 |
| Head Video Editor | The Changing World – Center for Parent Youth Org | 2000 |
| 2002 Founder of Broken Lens Films and hired for promotional and music videos by: Peet’s Coffee and Tea, New Jersey government, God’s Little Joke (signed band), One Pedaled Bike, plus over a dozen self-produced short films, narrative and avant garde. | ||
| _Acting/Theatre | ||
| Romeo Salviari | This Place is a Desert - Prelude Theatre Festival in NY | MIT-dir.Jay Schieb-05 |
| Osvald | Ghosts | Harvard-Radclliff -05 |
| Happy | Death of a Salesman | Pet Rock Players -02 |
| Lee | True West | Pet Rock Players -01 |
| Charlie Gordon | Flowers for Algernon | Emanon Players -00 |
| Benedick | Much Ado About Nothing | Emanon Players -99 |
| 2001 Co-Founder of the Pet Rock Players theatre production company in Atlantic City, NJ and active as a starring actor, co-director, co-producer, publicity, and art design for True West and Death of a Salesman. | ||
| _Awards Received | ||
| Pop Song is screened at the Woods Hole Film Festival in Cape Cod, MA | Summer 2003 | |
| Creative Image Award at the Latent Image Film Festival for Pop Song | April 2003 | |
| finalist in the Casablanca Futurevision Video Festival for a short video | 2001 | |
| studied at The New Jersey Governor’s School of the Arts for theatre | May 1999 | |
| _Special Skills & Software | ||
| Stop-Motion Animation, VJing/live
video mixing, Web Design (HTML), Final Cut Pro, Shake, 3D animation
(Cinema 4D), Flash, Photoshop, DVD Studio Pro, After Effects, Microsoft
Word, OS X, Pro Tools, and Windows. Also, I can sew; I made a Yeti. |
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