Alan Fischer

Founded in 2004, Ingenuity Studios is a full-service visual effects studio serving feature film and episodic television.

• Produce high profile cross-functional projects providing overall account leadership, developing executive level relationships.
• Oversee multidisciplinary teams of more than 40 people involved and collaborate with senior management teams to achieve objectives.
• Supervise simultaneous project-priorities with other in-house producers. Motivate teams to deliver projects on time and within budget.
• Manage client expectations and interpret/clarify client notes. Build and maintain strong relationships with clients.
• Ensure artists’ work meets creative and technical standards (storyboarding, previs, concept art, graphics, tracking, layout, DMP, roto, modeling, rigging, animation (Houdini), FX & simulation, texturing, lighting, Unreal Engine/RT, compositing (Nuke), deliverables).
• Prep information/assets for in-house and external teams (ShotGrid), ensuring the team stick to the artistic and business plans.
• Examples: feature films > Totally Killer, Gray Matter. Episodic > Mrs. Davis, American Auto, Home Economics, Grown-ish & The Good Fight.
• Anthem reel: https://www.ingenuitystudios.com/anthem-reel

DAf is a multi-award winning integrated creative agency and production company for projects worldwide.

• Executive Producer of over 100 live action and motion graphics projects, supervising producers, collaborating on the creative development and leading the preproduction, production and postproduction (VFX) of award-winning marketing campaigns.
• Lead omni-platform projects for Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Coca-Cola, Manchester United, Merck and many other multinational companies.
• Cut general production costs by negotiating pricing and fees, while ensuring improvement of the production processes and account growth.
• Digital Producer. Supervise pre delivery (QA) evaluation, act as liaison to design and web / app development and UX/UI.
• Agile leader (Lean, Scrum). Manage department technology initiatives for CRM, cloud storing and software and equipment implementation.
• VFX example 1 > 9 Lives multi-channel campaign (global): head producer, supervised client relations, helmed international production.
• VFX example 2 > 1000 Stories digital campaign (USA): head producer, supervised post-production and organized delivery of masters online.

Seret International is the largest Israeli film festival in the world that since 2010 showcases the latest and best Israeli cinema.

• Executive Producer of annual film festival Seret International, an independent, non-political, non-religious, all-inclusive film festival.
• Co-founder of Seret Film Festival in Chile and in Argentina. Helm the production of the film festival and streaming live events.
• Responsible for physical screenings in cinemas around the world. Supervise the distribution of films on online platforms including Eventive.org
• Own general budget. Lead relationships with companies, agencies, non-profit organizations and embassies. Made presentations to investors, financiers and other project stakeholders to obtain project funding.

Ant Fire Productions is an award-winning production house that develops and produces original content for all platforms.

• Head of production overseeing the creative development of fiction and non-fiction projects.
• Helm the production of commercials and feature films selected in over 40 film festivals and theatrically released.
• Manage operations and outline high-level goals. Budget and schedule multiple artistic and creative endeavors.
• Oversee staffing of world-class external vendors for film production, animation and streaming pre-recorded content and live events.
• Supervise postproduction and improve workflow for 2D and 3D animation, VFX and motion graphics projects. (Maya, Cinema4d, Adobe Suite).
• Director of award-winning films and documentaries: Son of Trauco, The Imaginary State, El Océano del Lenguaje.
• Executive producer of series of videos and short documentaries for universities such as Stanford and Berkeley and socially responsible companies such as Balloon Latam, which focuses on creating a positive impact on local communities in South America.
• Applied accounting and financial management acumen to every area of film production.
• Made presentations to investors, financiers and other project stakeholders to obtain project funding.

• Coordinate selection process of Foreign Language film nominees and organize release screenings events for the Producers Guild of America (PGA) and workshops for the SciTech department.
• Entered data, generated reports, and produced tracking documents.
• Gathered and organized materials to support operations.
• Coached employees through day-to-day work and complex problems.
• Coordinated with human resources department to handle payroll and personnel databases.

• Teaching assistant for graduate production and postproduction courses (CTPR 507 and 508) at the USC School of Cinematic Arts.Supported classroom activities, tutoring, and reviewing work.
• Partnered with teacher to plan and implement lessons following school's curriculum, goals, and objectives.
• Assisted teachers with classroom management and document coordination to maintain positive learning environment.

• Supervise postproduction and visual effects production.
• Devised solutions for technical concerns, needs, budgets and processes to meet deadlines and budgets without compromising quality of project.
• Created and distributed daily and weekly schedules to identify tasks with key deadlines.
• Worked directly with production team to manage operations, logistics, workspaces and budgeting.
• Developed digital archiving system to reduce search time of media content.

• Lead production for a wide range of film, digital & television projects for companies such as Univision and PBS.
• Planned video shoots in studio and remotely by managing production through initial stages to completion.
• Presented production ideas and determined creative scenarios for production and delivery.
• Coordinated with producers and on-air talent to create program content, new ideas, and segments.
• Developed schedules for production, editing, and duplication for timely delivery.