Working at Banana Republic Better Than Being a Hollywood Assistant

9Aug/090

Working at Banana Republic Better Than Being a Hollywood Assistant

Filmmaker Mag has a series about jobs filmmakers have taken to support themselves before they made it. I like this one from Barry Jenkins:

Filmmaker: How did you support yourself during the production of your last movie/movies?

Jenkins: I had this job at Banana Republic that was more or less essential to getting my last movie done. Was a great job, I was the shipment supervisor at the largest Banana Republic in the world, which meant rising at 4:30am to be at work for a 5:30am job. We unloaded a truck every morning and unpacked the new product across long, rectangular tables. They were very understanding about me taking time off to make the film; in fact, several people I worked with there are in the film, another shot the still that became the poster. To stay afloat, I even picked up a few shifts while we were in production. Super understanding.

--Filmmaker Magazine: Blog