Eastern UPM Breakfast 2020

Making Content in the Time of COVID: Current Trends and the Future of Eastern Production

November 7, 2020 An Eastern AD/UPM Council UPM Virtual Breakfast

On November 7, the Eastern AD/UPM Council’s Annual UPM Breakfast went virtual. During this invitation-only event hosted by the UPM Committee, Production Managers had an opportunity to learn from their fellows and ask questions during the online panel discussion, Making Content in the Time of COVID: Current Trends and the Future of Eastern Production.

Following an introduction by UPM Committee Co-Chairs Frank Covino (Blue Bloods), Lynn Appelle (Florida Girls) and Thomas Whelan (Evil), Covino was joined by UPMs Todd Arnow (Chicago Fire), Chris Bongirne (Plan B), Samantha Dyer (Younger), Holly Rymon (The Gilded Age) and Canella Williams-Larrabee (Raising Dion) for a frank and open panel discussion moderated by UPM Leslie Gyson (The Photograph). The panelists focused on productions that are shooting in the Eastern Region and how they are addressing the challenges of working in the COVID safety environment.

Following the moderated discussion, the panel also took questions submitted by the online audience and then heard from Assistant Executive Director Mary Hatch regarding the Guild's Return to Work Agreement.


ABOUT THE PANELISTS:
Todd ArnowTodd Arnow
In addition to his Producer and Executive Producer credits on the television series Chicago Fire, Arnow’s UPM credits include feature films such as Peter Weir’s 2003 DGA Award-nominated feature, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World; and other feature films including Chris Columbus’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Wolfgang Petersen’s The Perfect Storm, Oliver Stone’s Savages and Peter Berg’s Battleship. He has been a DGA member since 1997. 
 
Chris BongirneChris Bongirne
Bongirne’s resume includes Producer and Executive Producer credits on feature films such as Director Natalie Morales’s Plan B, Jeremy Garelick’s The Binge and Reginald Hudlin’s Marshall; Ken Burns & Sarah Burns’s documentary The Central Park Five; and episodes of the television documentary series American Experience and American Masters. He has been a DGA member since 2007. 
 
Frank CovinoFrank Covino
Covino’s UPM credits include the mini-series Seven Seconds; the pilot episode of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel; and episodes of Blue BloodsSuccessionThe Beginning of EverythingThe Path and Vinyl. He has been a DGA member since 2007 and serves as an Alternate on the Eastern AD/UPM Council and as a Co-Chair of the Council’s UPM Committee. 
 
Samantha DyerSamantha Dyer
Dyer’s UPM credits include Alan Taylor’s feature The Many Saints of Newark; the pilot of the series Y: The Last Man; episodes of Dash & Lily. She has been a DGA member since 2018. 
 
Holly RymonHolly Rymon
Rymon’s UPM credits include feature films such as Chad Stahelski’s John Wick: Chapter 2 and John Wick, Ken Scott’s Delivery Man, Paul Weitz’s Admission, Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck’s It’s Kind of a Funny Story and Scott Rosenbaum’s The Perfect Age of Rock ‘n’ Roll; and the mini-series The Defenders and The Night Of. She has been a DGA member since 2007. 

Canella Williams-LarrabeeCanella Williams-Larrabee
Williams-Larrabee’s UPM credits include the series Raising DionA Good MarriageConfession and Evil. She has been a DGA member since 2019 and currently serves as an alternate member of the Eastern AD/UPM Council.

 
Leslie Gyson Leslie Gyson (moderator)
Gyson’s UPM credits include feature film such as Stella Meghie’s The Photograph and Derek Estlin Purvis's The Love Guide; and episodes of Deception and The Americans. She has been a DGA member since 2014 and serves as an Alternate on the Eastern AD/UPM Council and as a member of the Council’s UPM Committee. 

ABOUT THE EASTERN AD/UPM COUNCIL'S UPM COMMITTEE

In addition to Committee Co-Chairs Lynn Appelle, Frank Covino and Thomas Whelan, the UPM Committee’s members are Adam Brightman, David Chambers, Will Greenfield, Joe Guest, Leslie Gyson, Patty Doherty Hess, Daniel Hank, Richard Lederer, Rosemary Lombard, Stephen Lippross, Claudine Marrotte, Brian Papworth, Carla Raij, Carlos Vazquez, Canella Williams-Larrabee and Mikki Ziska.

 
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