What Does a Creative Producer Do in Film

My job is to take an idea and creatively shepherd it from the earliest, earliest stages of production all the way through, and that means working with all kinds of producers, working with people who can actually go get the money,

working with people who can understand how we actually make it, working with people who understand how the visual effects are actually gonna happen, working with a whole range of people.

My job ultimately is creatively to be the shepherd, to be there with the filmmakers.

Oftentimes, I hire the filmmakers, hire writers, hire directors, and be there to, like, bring the whole thing to life in this great, beautiful collaboration with, with directors and writers.

And so at the end of the day, I work really closely with writers and directors, I work really closely with actors, and I work really closely with all the departments on a film to, like, bring the vision to life.

And one of, one of the things that makes my job really unique is once I find a filmmaker, whether I'm, like, paired with them by a studio or I've hired them on behalf of a studio, once I find a filmmaker, be that a writer-director,

my job then becomes to believe in their ideas and champion their ideas and bring their ideas to fruition.

Because my job is to know I don't know everything.

I don't know what I want. All I know is I find people who have incredible vision, and I champion them.

And so I go around, and I work really closely to bring things to life.

And so oftentimes, you know, like, if I don't believe in the vision, I'm very vocal about it. "Listen, this is what I believe in.

This is what I don't believe in." And I think that, that my having an opinion on, strong opinion on what I think is cool or what I think is resonant or what I think is heartfelt or what I think is moving is valuable to them because they know that I've been doing it long enough that I have a clear sense of,

I have a clear sense of what I think will actually work for an audience