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- Spotlight: Marissa Levin
- Spotlight: Eric Mason
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- Spotlight: Ben Turner
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SPOTLIGHT: MARISSA LEVIN
JUN 26, 2008
IF's weekly highlight on the people that make up our company. This week the spotlight is on Marissa Levin.
Marissa Levin has been with IF for 4 years and has produced many of the Experience Design projects you can see here. Here are her thoughts:
On where she's from:
LA. About a mile and a half from the LA office.
On where she went to school:
Undergrad: UC Berkeley (English/Business), Grad School at UCLA (Architecture)
On how she got into this business:
I love design but everything in architecture takes too long. Experience Design has a kind of interesting balance; the complexity of designing a space and the speed of producing motion graphics.
On how she first got involved at IF:
I first got involved with IF when I worked for Alex McDowell on Minority Report. I was the Researcher for the film. I spent a lot of time at Hennessey + Ingalls looking for inspirational photographs for the Precog visions. That was in 2000.
On how long she's been with the company:
I starting working at IF in 2004.
On what she does for IF:
Produce projects - particularly Experience Design projects. The ones that producers generally try to stay away from...
On her favorite IF projects:
Discovery Land Company. Seriously. We learned a ton. The challenge of New City was a thrill. I never thought we would pull it off.
On what she likes about production:
Making shit happen. And seeing it happen.
On her alternate career choice:
Lawyer. For sure. It's my only real regret thus far...choosing architecture school instead of law school.
On hobbies:
Playing with Leo. He's my 3 year old. The love of my life.
On NY or LA:
LA has got it all. You just need to give it time and know where to find it.
On what she's working on right now:
River Oaks, WBVOD, and DLC.
On what excites her about production:
Getting all the moving parts in sync.
On what inspires her:
Applying new ideas to old processes or vice versa.
On what she does in her spare time:
Spare time???? I'm a full time working mom!
On the last place she traveled:
Hawaii.
On her dream job:
Super high-end event planner. A different version of Experience Design.
On something some may not know about her:
I wrote travel guide books for Fodor's while in college.