MEDIA RELATIONS EXPERIENCE \\

Drawing upon my experience of working at a media agency and my background in film production, I have planned and promoted events, including UCLA's week-long Festival of New Creative Work , and The Barbie Film Festival. 

I have managed event and client publicity, and written press releases and copy for event-related print materials and online content, ensuring that the information reached the widest possible spread of platforms available to the public. I have pitched festival news and events to local, regional and national print, electronic and online media; placed ads and radio spots and submitted event listings to external media; forged relationships with representatives and journalists from digital and print media, production companies and film studios; fine tuned my communication and writing skills, and developed my ability to organize and maintain tracking systems, research potential news outlets, and cultivate new contacts.

 I have planned, developed and implemented media relations campaigns - writing press releases, client biographies, behind-the-scenes and “the making of” vignettes, arranging and conducting press events and interviews, drafting and polishing electronic press kits, responding to media calls, building and maintaining media lists, and tracking and cataloging both traditional press and new media coverage.  I strive to build solid client relationships, establish creative strategies, and keep up-to-date with the latest trends in social media.  

I am collaborative at heart, liaising with information sources to fact check and ensure accuracy of information, working in tandem with graphic design teams, web designers and print services, and encouraging and managing student assistants and interns, to ensure that media campaigns reach fruition.

MEDIA RELATIONS EXPERIENCE \\ THE CURTIS BROWN GROUP, LONDON

My experience working at the London-based literary and talent agency The Curtis Brown Group, enabled me to hone my media relations skills - working to promote clients as a team in the Presenters Department, and then by developing my individual client list in Film & Television. 

Initially, I worked for the Head of the Presenters Department, with a client list of professionals working in News and Current Affairs, Radio and Journalism, Factual Entertainment and the Culinary Arts. We worked hard as a team to represent these individuals across all media platforms: hosting popular television shows, producing documentaries, radio broadcasts, writing regular columns in national newspapers and magazines and over-seeing book deals with major publishing houses. We also negotiated client deals for voice-over work, corporate engagements and brand endorsements.

I developed professional relationships with my counterparts at BBC Television and BBC Radio, Independent Television (ITV), Sky TV and at various production companies and networks specializing in factual entertainment - including E! Entertainment Television and The Food Network - as well as with contacts at major print media outlets The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Times of London, The New York Times, Conde Nast and Country Living. Regular celebrity guest editorials and interviews included The Shape I'm In for The Telegraph (client Matt James, for example), and At My Table for The New York Times (Nigella Lawson).

I went on to establish my own list of clients in the Film & Television Division of The Curtis Brown Group: cinematographers, editors, production designers, costume designers and composers. 

It became my responsibility alone, to promote and share my clients' work. I began writing regular blog posts about  the film and television projects that my clients were working on, with photographs, video footage (taken during set visits, or sent to me by the clients themselves), storyboards and details about filming locations and curiosity-piquing morsels concerning the pitch, the script, casting notes, and behind-the-scenes snapshots.

I tracked projects in development at film companies in Los Angeles and London, established relationships with producers and production managers, and secured work for my clients on a wide range of projects across film, television, commercials, music videos and documentaries.