
Jon Brockett
Coordinating Producer
Screen Actors Guild Awards
Screen Actors Guild Awards
Coordinating Producer
I produce a live nationally televised awards show.
Most of my day is spent on the phone and on email, which is frustrating because there's less time to be creative. Relationships with the people I work with - in and out of the office - are the key to getting things done in my job. I work on these relationships everyday.
Here's the first step for college students
Do everything. Take every film and theater class offered. Intern. Audition. For anything. Produce your own plays. Create your own short films. Even if it's with your iPhone camera. Get your feet wet. Learn everything you can.
"I honestly never had a lot of resistance from family or friends. I wanted to move away to NY, I moved to NY. I wanted to move even further away to LA, I moved to LA. My family was supportive of my choices and really enabled me to succeed. I think about this every day. If there was any noise it was my own. I doubted myself. I had a lot of fear of failure (and still do sometimes) but I pushed through it each time. I'm still pushing."