Amanda Konkin | Producer
Amanda Konkin is a Producer of live action and animated content living and working in Vancouver, Canada.
Producing Portfolio/Filmography
Credit as Producer unless otherwise noted. IMDB Page: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3524171/
Feature Film:
- One Must Wash Eyes, 2023, dir. Sepideh Yadegar, Feature Film, Seeking distribution
- Collaborate with Director Sepideh Yadegar to manage all logistics of the project for her company Deh Deh Films including hiring and managing a 50+ person cast and crew
- Responsibilities: Execution of Ultra-low budget project from Script to Distribution
Shorts/Music Videos:
- Lazy Sunday (Kristin Carter) : 2024, dir. Eva Tavares, Music Video, Youtube (credit: Line Producer)
- After producing Euphoria, this role was focused on Line production and consulting to support lead producer Sydney Knight on Kristin’s stunt heavy music video created with support of Factor and the prestigious MVP Prize.
- Responsibilities: Prep, contracting, budgeting, scheduling, Post Production Supervision.
- Euphoria (Kristin Carter): 2024, dir. Eva Tavares, Music Video, Youtube
- Brought on to support Lead Producer Sydney Knight with core aspects of producing for this FACTOR Funded Music Video for independent music artist Kristin Carter
- Responsibilities: budgeting, scheduling, crew & vendor management
- Another Level (Hyaenas): 2023, dir. Luvia Petersen, Music Video, Youtube (credit: Line Producer)
- Responsibilities: Budgeting, crew & vendor management,
- iDorothy 2021, dir. Luvia Petersen, Short Film, Crazy 8s|Download Joy Productions
- It’s of note that Crazy 8s often has multiple core producers for each project. However, as her 2nd Crazy 8s project Amanda challenged herself to independently produce iDorothy with her Writer and Director team. All it took was intensive planning, creative collaboration, an incredible team, the Crazy 8s in-kind support structure and 1000$ cash.
- Responsibilities: Pitch, budget, schedule, crew, casting, management, locations.
- Software/Tools: Circus Onboarding Software
- H.appiness 2020, dir. Luvia Petersen, Short Film, Download Joy Productions
- Available on Bell Media/Crave and Internationally on Dust, Funded by the Shorts to Features Program with Bell Media and the Harold Greenberg Fund.
- Produced by Download Joy Productions, company co-owned by Amanda Konkin, Luvia Petersen and Huelah Lander.
- Responsibilities: Incorporation, Distribution, Clearances, E&O, Union and non-union contracts, budgeting, scheduling, crew and talent management.
- The Butterfly Affect, 2019, dir. Stephanie Blakey, Short Film, Spectacle Five Films|ACE Program
- Created as part of the inaugural Women in Animation Vancouver’s ACE Program (originally Five in Focus), as producer helped to select the other participants in order to create a 5 min 2d Animated short film with a 50K grant.
- Incorporated Spectacle Five Films to produce the project along with the four other selected participants (Writer: Jen Davreux, Director: Stephanie Blakey, Art Director: Maisha Moore, Animation Director: Kaitlin Sutherland)
- Responsibilities: Incorporation, Tax Credits, CAVCO certification, Casting, Crew Management, Budget and scheduling.
- Ada, 2019, dir. Steve Kammerer, Short Film, Crazy 8s
- Lead Producer, brought onboard the project after it was selected for the top 12 to help take it from script development into production.
- Responsibilities: Union and non-union Paperwork, Crew & Vendor Management, Casting, Scheduling.
- Software/Tools: Circus Onboarding Software
- Singer Sisters, 2016, dir. Smita Acharyya, Short Film, Telus Storyhive
- Hired by Amanda Lockitch and Alison Wandzura after they secured 10K of funding from Storyhive. Stepped into a lead producer role while they both starred in the project.
- Responsibilities: Budget, Schedule, Crew & Vendor Management.
- Dude, Where’s My Ferret, 2015, dir. Alison Parker, Short Film, Outsider Studios
- Responsibilities: Post Production coordination and Crew Management
Series:
- The Switch, 2015, dir. Jem Garrard, TV-Series, OutTV| Trembling Void Studio (credit: co-producer)
- The Switch was the world’s first transgender sitcom, created by and starring transgendered individuals.
- Responsibilties: UBCP Paperwork, Crew tax credit documentation, general crew management and overall coordination on the series.
- Silk, 2015, dir. Nathaneal Vass, Webseries Pilot, Telus Storyhive|Trembling Void Studios
- Silk’s pilot episode was the recipient of a 10K Storyhive grant during its inaugural webseries intake.
- Responsibilities: focusing on UBCP paperwork, coordination and crew management.
- Blank Verse and Ben’s Vlog, 2013/2014 Creator/Producer (Webseries, Youtube)
- New episodes of Blank Verse were posted every week from Sept-Dec 2013 (22 episodes), and Ben’s Vlog (12 episodes) was a twice weekly spin off that was available in March/April 2014. Amanda Konkin created the series and concept, bringing on different writers and directors to tackle the individual episodes.
- She also worked with Laura McLean (director for Act 3 and Ben’s Vlog) to develop extensive companion content for the series, including character run twitter accounts, an online newspaper and video series for the fictional Bankside University Newspaper the Messenger Speech, and a blog run by Will Shakespeare.
Animation Work with Mainframe Studios
- Andrew The Big BIG Unicorn – announced. Line Producer
- Superkitties– 2022/2023 Season 2 Line Producer
- Unicorn Academy 2021/2022 Season 1 Overseas Supervisor
- Cocomelon 2020 (various shorts) Line Producer
- Octonauts 2020 (5x11min Season 5 update) Line Producer
- Made by Maddie 2018/2019 (44 x11min) Production Manager
- Barbie Dreamhouse Adventures 2018 Ep 124, 125: Undercover Mermaid – Production Manager
- Ratchet and Clank: Life of Pie 2018 Production Manager
- ReBoot: The Guardian Code 2017 (YTV/Netflix)- Associate Production Manager
- Surf’s Up 2: Wavemania 2016 (Sony DVD)- Asset and Shot Finaling Coordinator