Part of the "How to Be a Production Assistant" Series. "A good PA is someone who anticipates... You have to think ahead. You always have to be a step ahead of anything that's going on." - MarvL West, Camera Op. - Rickey Smiley For Real, The Perfect Picture Production Assistants are the lifelines of every production. And because most people start in the Film & TV Production business as one, there are a whoooooooole bunch of them. One of the questions we got from our subscribe

"We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance." - Harrison Ford Allyn James is one of the reasons I have a career in Film and TV at all... I met her when my friend Tommy requested me as his AC for "Being Bobby Brown". Allyn was the Production Manager for that show through Inertia Films. She got me work as a PA and AC the entire first year of my career. And since I transitioned into being strictly a Media Management Company, she still refers me fo

"“We all keep dreaming, and luckily, dreams really do come true.” – Katie Holmes" Elijah Everette (@skoolatharula) is a long-time friend... We met while we were both Production Assistants back in 2012. He's the first person I had ever met who was successfully pursuing Acting as a dream while working as a Grip in Production. Now he's got roles in "Sleepless", "Hidden Figures" and "Greenleaf", working beside celebrities such as Jamie Foxx, Michelle Monaghan and Tyler Perry ....