Film Producer, Writer
Greater Seattle Area
- Current
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- Independent Feature Film Producer at SPECTRUM GARDEN LLC
- Past
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- Literary Coordinator/JR Literary Agent at The Jim Preminger Agency
- Endeavor Agency Assistant at Endeavor Agency
- Education
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- San Francisco State University
- Ecole normale supérieure
- Harvard University
- Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
- Université de Lausanne
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Sirpa Nelson’s Summary
My motto is KNOW THYSELF as inscribed on the temple doors at Delphi. In my five years of living and studying in Europe, I wanted to understand politics (especially German), literature and cinema (especially French.) At Harvard, I studied comparative religion, social psychology, and did experimental research on self-deception. Then I studied philosophy and threw myself into European cinema in Paris on a Harvard fellowship. My school (where Sartre and Foucault had studied) was stormed, bombed and taken over by militant unemployed French citizens; the films of Ingmar Bergman and Andrei Tarkovsky changed my life. In 2000, I moved to the West Coast. After finishing film school in San Francisco, I moved to LA and worked in entertainment law, story development and sales. Film and digital video is now the world I live and work in -- I am developing new projects in Seattle.
Sirpa Nelson’s Specialties:
Entertainment Law, Fluency in French and German, Comparative Religion, Film/Digital Media, Budgeting, Movie Producing (Fiction and Documentaries), American Independent Cinema, Extensive Writing Experience, Story Development, Photography, Cinematography, Film History, Research in Social Sciences, Project Management, Classical Piano, Guitar.
Sirpa Nelson’s Experience
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Independent Feature Film Producer
SPECTRUM GARDEN LLC
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Entertainment industry)
January 2007 — Present (2 years 7 months)
Raised Capital, wrote a business plan for private equity, produced HD footage on set, prepared budgets, schedules, pitched project to mini-majors in NYC and LA.
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Literary Coordinator/JR Literary Agent
The Jim Preminger Agency
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Entertainment industry)
May 2005 — December 2006 (1 year 8 months)
Promoted clients at Hollywood studios, developed scripts and feature packages, collected data on open writing and directing assignments for movie industry, scouted for new talent at this established literary agency representing writers and directors.
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Endeavor Agency Assistant
Endeavor Agency
(Entertainment industry)
December 2004 — May 2005 (6 months)
Worked in the prestigious mailroom of Hollywood’s second most powerful and prestigious talent agency in Beverly Hills, did script coverage, covered agents’ and partners’ (i.e. moguls') busy Hollywood desks including the famous "Ari"!
Sirpa Nelson’s Education
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San Francisco State University
MFA , Cinema, Film and Digital Production , 2000 — 2004
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Ecole normale supérieure
N/A , Psychology, Cinema , 1997 — 1998
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Harvard University
1993 — 1997
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Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
N/A , German, Politics, Psychology , 1993 — 1994
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Université de Lausanne
N/A , French , 1992 — 1993
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Buzz Marketing Addicted
Sirpa Nelson’s Honors:
Rotary Ambassadorial Graduate Scholar to Geneva and Lausanne, Switzerland
Two Year-Long Harvard University Fellowships to Europe
United Nations Award for Short Film "Wrappings" with Katrina Hart Parker
Sirpa Nelson’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- new ventures
- business deals
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