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Film Courage: Who are the first people you want to see the finished product of the Internal Butler [our hypothetical movie we’ve done during the interview]? Producer’s rep, distributor, sales agent, film festivals?
Sean Reid, Producer: Let’s back it up. Let’s say that we’re in the process of post- production and we’ve just got the assembly together. Maybe I want myself, the director and maybe one other person to see it. I don’t want everybody to see the assembly because it’s not going…[you are going] to be disappointed because if you’ve never watched an assembly, you just don’t. People’s brains don’t work well if they don’t understand what they’re watching with an assembly. Why isn’t this done? They don’t understand to just watch what they can see, they want to watch everything else.
Then I get to that next one, let’s say now we’re at a cut but not quite the fine cut, but a cut where it’s good enough, where they’ve got everything in it, then maybe now all the producers can see it. Maybe some of the money people can see it, maybe, depending on how happy we are. Then really I’m waiting till the fine cut where just about everything is done but maybe you’re missing a title here or there. Maybe the picture is all cut but we’re still waiting for the sound? Then I maybe let people watch it who would maybe still question but I’d still let them watch it.
When I finally have a cut/cut then I’m probably still wanting to do some kind of test screening where I’m at least screening it for cast and crew. Then at that point if I’m happy with that then maybe I’m looking at…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
BIO:
Sean Reid is a 20-year veteran Producer/Director/Writer of feature films, television programming, news and music specials. His television experience includes management roles at E! NEWS LIVE (E!), as well as, producer positions on the THE ROB NELSON SHOW (Fox), and SQUARE OFF (TV Guide Channel). Reid has a well-earned reputation for combining his instinctual story skills and technical savvy to elevate the productions with which he is involved.
Reid’s Feature Film credits include the coming of age thriller drama REDEMPTION, featuring Brian White (Ray Donavon, Homeland), and T.J. Storm (Godzilla, Captain America: Civil War), on which he served as the Producer, Director and Writer. REDEMPTION was one of the first Indie features to be shot in HD with the Sony 900 camera. The movie screened in competition at the Reel World Film Festival in Toronto, and Playhouse West Festival in Los Angeles, and was distributed by LionsGate. Reid’s producer credits include the movies HORRORS OF WAR, distributed by Maverick; the festival hit PHIN; and the soon to be released feature, THE CAMPUS.
While at E! , Reid served as Assignment Manager (Supervising Producer) of E! NEWS, and was the Producer/Director of E! NEWS UNPLUGGED, a series of short music performances, and one-hour specials, shot on location in and around the E! News Studios, and featuring such performers as Robert Palmer, Lisa Loeb, Steel Pulse, Peter Frampton, Everclear, and Smash- Mouth. Over time, the performances grew from a few songs in the studio’s courtyard, to full concerts shot in front of an audience of 500.
Reid has produced over one hundred network promos and image spots, often working as a First Assistant Director. Campaigns included TYLER PERRY’S HOUSE OF PAYNE producing all of the network promos for the entire five seasons in one year. Other clients included: The NFL Network; PBS Sprout; Mothers. com; Fox’s SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE, HOUSE, and LIE TO ME; BET’s CELEBRATION OF GOSPEL with Steve Harvey and the DIY Network’s LET’S GET DIRTY Campaign, which ran nationally in movie theaters.
Reid directed and co-produced the pilot for Variety’s DVD Premiere Awards, with host Ben Stein and presenters included Vivica A. Fox and Quentin Tarantino. He also directed the pilots for The Guest House, for Executive Producers Tisha Campbell-Martin, and Monique Chennault; and #OWNIT for Oprah Winfrey’s OWN.
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