The next free Post Break webinar from Post New York Alliance (PNYA) will take place this Thursday, November 12 at 4pm Eastern, and it will explore the world of Visual FX from the perspective of the post-production supervisors.
Visual Effects Producer Leslie Lerman and Powerhouse VFX Executive Producer Ryan Cunningham will be on the panel to discuss producing and delivering VFX for features and television. Besides describing the role of the Visual Effects Producer, they will offer advice to Post Production Supervisors who produce visual effects themselves. The panel will be moderated by Ben Baker, Vice President of Studio Services at HBO, who will guide the discussion about delivering high quality visual effects on time and budget.
You can register for the free Zoom webinar here and access the archive of previous Post Break sessions via audio and video formats.
You can read more about the panelist below:
Leslie Lerman has more than 20 years of experience producing visual effects for feature films. She has collaborated with director Marc Forster on five films including Finding Neverland and The Kite Runner. She has also worked with Sam Mendes (Skyfall, Spectre), Ron Howard (In The Heart of the Sea) and Rob Marshall (Mary Poppins Returns), among others. Most recently, she oversaw visual effects for John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place 2.
Ryan Cunningham joined Powerhouse VFX as Executive Producer in 2018. Previously, he served as Senior VFX Producer at Zoic Studios, Method Studios and The Artery, and as Executive Producer at The Colony. His many credits include Warrior for Cinemax/HBO, Glass for Universal, Maniac! for Netflix and Servant for Apple+. He has also produced several feature films and received an Emmy Award nomination for the CBS series Game Changers.
Moderator Ben Baker is Vice President of Studio Services at HBO, managing the network’s internal post-production resources. He previously served as Vice President of Post Production at Vice Media, where he led post operations for Vice‘s original feature and episodic studio. His experience as a post-production supervisor, producer, project consultant, manager and executive spans projects in the U.S. and internationally for broadcast networks, studios and independent producers.
