Jim Ospensonproduction

2-LANE MEDIA
Project Manager
Programming Director

Los Angeles, CA
1995 - present
Staff member for interactive marketing and multimedia production company. Focusing on both corporate and entertainment clients, production centers on websites and CD-ROMs. Serve as a Lingo programmer, digital video specialist, and team leader of projects, from pre-production budgeting and strategy through final delivery.
AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE
Los Angeles, CA
1995
Interactive design and digital video production for several titles including Reed Portfolio, MMK Open Portfolio, AFI/Radius promo for NAB, Apple New Media Forum presentation.
CORESTATES BANK
Producer/Director
Philadelphia, PA
1992 - 1993
Staff producer for Video CoreStates Review, a quarterly employee newsmagazine, and other projects. Alternately served as producer, director, scriptwriter, on/offline editor, director of photography: in boardrooms, studios, offices, and in the field.
CHANNEL 55
Producer/Director
Philadelphia, PA
1990 - 1992
Directed and edited monthly 30 minute medical talk show TempleCARE. P/D for animated promo spots for WRTI Jazz 90. P/D for series Fast Philosophies. P/D for series Black Athena.
HAPPILY EVER AFTER
Director of Photography

work in progress/30 mins./video
Documentary tracing how her mother and the various men in her mom's life have shaped the filmmaker's own attitudes towards men. Directed by Meryl Perlson.
TO TASTE A HUNDRED HERBS
and ALL UNDER HEAVEN
Assistant Editor
1986, 1987/each 58 mins/16mm.
Two thirds of a three-part internationally broadcast PBS series One Village in China, winner of Cine Golden Eagle, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and National Endowment for the Humanities. Directed by Carma Hinton & Richard Gordon, edited by David Carnochan.
VICTORIA'S SECRET SOCIETY
Director of Photography

1992/5 mins./video
Fake documentary regarding a 12-step program for mail-order lingerie addicts. Directors: Jenny Key Baker & Lisa Coffin.
CASTING THE FIRST STONE
Additional Camera
1991/90 mins./video
Nationally broadcast PBS video documentary on abortion activists, directed by Julie Gustafson.
BLIND SPOT
Assistant Director
1990/30 mins/16mm
Urban melodrama about a woman who is preparing for her husband's return from prison. Directed by Robert Palumbo.
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version 2.1, July 2, 1996