My name is Phoenix Lenchanko. I am 20 years old and about to be a 3rd year student attending University of Hawaii at Manoa West O'ahu after attending Leeward Community College the past two years while also working at a restaurant to pay for my college education . I am a digital media and film major with intent to pursue screenwriting and directing. My plans at West O'ahu are to further pursue my education and to harness my craft and give me more time to do so.
After an 8 month hiatus, I went back to California Pizza Kitchen to work as a Server/Takeout worker and kitchen staff member. Satisfied customer needs by ensuring order accuracy and addressing concerns proactively. When working in the kitchen as a cook, we strive to make sure the food comes out within a reasonable amount of time and the food is exactly how we present it or to the customers' needs.
This was a film I helped PA on for only a few days but I assisted crew members with various tasks with lockup, setting areas up and doing whatever was asked of me.
Cooking Hawaiian style is a local cable tv show and for the time I was there helping out in the kitchen getting all the dishes ingredients ready and set the dishes up for shooting. I'd make errands if we ran out of ingredients or needed something else.
For about a week I was a production assistant or PA on the short film called Ami and Slide filmed at Kualoa ranch. I'd help lock set down when they filmed, make runs for whatever the producers needed and was on standby for whenever somebody needed something.
For almost the whole month of May, I was an Intern at the Cannes Film Festival under the American Pavilion student program. They had us working all types of different jobs 4 hours a day and then we'd get all access to the Cannes film festival. My job there was working at a coffee bar and so I got to meet a lot of different people from all around the world and with my remaining free time I got to walk around the festival grounds, watch panels with directors and writers, view films of my choosing and explore what the town of Cannes had to offer.
For two weeks I was working on and off set of the filming of UNTAMED season 2 under the writers and producers. I was shown how they film scenes on certain days, how to read call sheets, what goes into the pre production of a big show like something for NETFLIX before they can even get to production, and I got to talk with writer Mark L. Smith a whole bunch.
I volunteered to help out at the Chief of War TV show premiere in Ko'olina on July 18th, 2025. My volunteer work consisted of me just helping anybody with any questions that they had about seating.