Stephanie is a documentary film producer. After earning her undergraduate degree in Film and Video from Penn State, Stephanie left for California and worked in production for the “X Games” for three years. With a slow film production market and a desire to teach, Stephanie turned to education, teaching 5th graders at a local private school. Now teaching film producing courses at Drexel University, Stephanie focuses most of her time on documentaries, merging her two passions of education and filmmaking.
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>> I'm Stephanie Ionin [phonetic] and I'm a film producer. I've produced and directed films before ranging from documentary to fiction films, dabbled in experimental. But the majority of the time that I've actually made money in the industry which is what this is all about was with documentary film production. And so my days are filled with anything from helping build my own company which I'm currently doing right now. Or if I'm working with someone else, you know, the job of a film producer is one that for the most part you are in charge of keeping an eye on the film from inception until completion and making sure that it accomplishes all of its goals and stays on track and gets the money that it needs. You're essentially coordinating the business side of things. So I could be making phone calls all day, I could be sitting on my computer all day, or I could be out in the field actually doing interviews and filming. So my days are very different depending on what's going on.
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