Job description
OVERVIEW OF ROLE:
EPIX is seeking an executive to oversee post-production matters for its licensed and owned/self-produced scripted and unscripted original programming.
PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Provide network/studio executive oversight of the post-production process from greenlight across all phases of editorial and delivery
- Review/approve post-production budgets and schedules
- Review and approve key post-production personnel and vendors, including editors, composers, and main title, VFX, and sound and picture finishing vendors
- Facilitate review and network approval of show credit sequences, in close coordination with creative and business affairs executives
- Review and provide feedback on rough cuts, including with respect to music, VFX and graphics, and approve broadcast masters (creative QC)
- Coordinate with show post staff, operations, business affairs and others as needed in connection with physical and paper delivery of shows
- Attend color reviews and mix playbacks (if needed/budgeted)
- Attend cost report meetings and advise on post-production savings/overages issues
- Oversee creation of DCPs as needed for festivals and premiers
- Work closely with creative executives, business affairs, operations, creative services and other EPIX departments to meet expectations and deadlines
Basic Qualifications:
- Obtain significant television post-production understanding and experience across both scripted and documentary programming, preferably in both executive and producer roles
- Superior knowledge of current post-production workflows and a wide array of media asset types
- Familiarity with customary television standards and practices, domestic and international broadcast standards, content security protocols, and physical/paper deliverables requirements
- Experience with digital delivery protocols, QC, and rejection resolution
- Obtain significant television post-production understanding and experience across both scripted and documentary programming, preferably in both executive and producer roles
Preferred Qualifications:
- Problem solver - able to plan, take initiative, propose solutions, and overcome obstacles
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to work independently as well as in a team setting, maintaining superior judgment, discretion, and confidentiality at all times.
ABOUT EPIX®
EPIX®, an MGM company, is a premium television network delivering a broad line-up of quality original series and documentaries, the latest movie releases and classic film franchises - all available on TV, on-demand, online and across devices. EPIX® has tripled the amount of original programming on the network and has become a destination for original premium content with series including Godfather of Harlem, starring and executive produced by Forest Whitaker; Pennyworth, the origin story of Batman's butler Alfred and drama Chapelwaite, based on the short story Jerusalem's Lot by Stephen King and starring Academy Award winner Adrien Brody; as well as upcoming premieres of western adventure series Billy the Kid; Sci-Fi horror series From produced by Midnight Radio and AGBO; season two of dramedy Bridge and Tunnel written and directed by Ed Burns; season two of acclaimed spy thriller Condor, season three of epic fantasy drama series Britannia; and docuseries Fiasco, based on the podcast of the same name. Other originals include Emmy®-nominated music docuseries Laurel Canyon; docuseries Fall River, from Blumhouse Television; season two of War of the Worlds, from Howard Overman and starring Gabriel Byrne and Daisy Edgar-Jones; sweeping historical drama Domina; docuseries NFL: The Grind, from NFL Films and hosted by Rich Eisen; Belgravia, from Julian Fellowes, Gareth Neame and the creative team from Downton Abbey; docuseries Helter Skelter: An American Myth, executive produced and directed by Lesley Chilcott; By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem; and Enslaved featuring Hollywood icon and human rights activist Samuel L. Jackson. Launched in October 2009, EPIX® is available nationwide through cable, telco, satellite and emerging digital distribution platforms as well as through its EPIX NOW app, providing more movies than any other network with thousands of titles available for streaming.
For more information about EPIX, go to www.EPIX.com. Follow EPIX on Twitter @EpixHd (http://www.twitter.com/EpixHD) and on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/EPIX), YouTube (http://youtube.com/EPIX), Instagram (http://instagram.com/EPIX) and Snapchat @EPIXTV.
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