Martina Chakarova

Martina Chakarova

Line Producer

Senior VFX Line Producer / 14 yrs

London, United Kingdom

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Playing for Keeps (2012)

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Stolen (2012)

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Production Coordinator

Walking With Dinosaurs (2000)

Work History
  • Line Producer

    Framestore

    October 2013 - Present

    - Shots and milestones scheduling
    - Task assignments
    - Setting targets and communicating them to the team
    - Reflecting any changes to dates for task deliveries into the schedule
    - Overseeing client deliveries and making sure they happen in accordance with the schedule
    - Anticipating issues affecting the teams, departments and/or milestones and offering up solutions to Supervisors and Producers
    - Managing and mentoring the Coordinators
    - Approving the holiday requests
    - Crew and seat planning
    - Updating shot statuses
    - Progress, bids and status reports as required
    - Making sure that the project is completed on time and budget, the day-to-day work is organized accordingly in and the information flow between teams and departments is flawless

  • Production Coordinator

    Animal Logic

    August 2012 - April 2013

    Walking with Dinosaurs:
    • Scheduling for the compositing department
    • Communicating the schedule, milestones and priorities to the artists and leads
    • Coordinating the flow of information for elements, requests and briefs
    • Tracking the status and bids, assuring that the milestones are completed on time and budget
    • Organizing dailies, rounds and meetings, notes taking and accurate distribution of the information
    • Adapting the schedule to the daily changes on the projects
    • Reporting for the projects’ progress, current bids and shot statuses
    • Packaging and delivering of the outputs and assets to editorial, DI and other relevant departments
    • Participating in the RND meetings for production tools in company

  • Production Coordinator

    WWFX, Nu Boyna Film Production

    November 2010 - August 2012

    Project management, including:
    • Scheduling for the various 2D and 3D departments on the different projects
    • Communicating the plan, goals and priorities to the artists and head of departments
    • Coordinating the flow of information and elements between artists, departments and offices
    • Tracking the status of 1000+ shots, assuring the projects are completed on time and budget
    • Allocating resources between the various on-going projects in the facility
    • Adapting the schedule to the changes of the projects on a daily basis
    • Providing reports for the projects’ and artists’ progress
    • Flagging recruitment needs and possibilities for work distribution among the studio’s offices
    • Participating in the VFX break-down preparation and data-base maintenance

  • Project Manager

    Association “Corporate Social Responsibility”

    September 2009 - October 2010

    Project management for the initiative “CO2 Diet”:
    • planning, budgeting and strategy preparation
    • promoting, partnerships’ establishing and maintaining
    • media and public relations
    • press-center management, organization of media participations
    • event management - B2C and B2B promotional and educational events
    • content creation and administration of web-site and social media accounts
    • presentation of the project at seminars and conferences
    • methodology and research preparation, realization and results reporting
    • coordination of the production of advertising materials

  • Marketing and PR Consultant

    Marketor

    November 2007 - October 2010

    Account management for Philips, HP, Deloitte and others:
    • creative concepts management
    • strategic marketing planning
    • corporate-, public-, product- and on-line communications
    • advertising management
    • event and BTL management
    • crisis management
    • corporate social responsibility
    • media trainings
    • media planning
    • media monitoring
    • production management

Education
  • Bachelor's degree in Communication and Media Studies

    Universita’ degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, RE, Italy

    2009 - 2009
  • Bachelor in Visual arts

    NBU

    2006 - 2009