Today we’d like to introduce you to Jamie Davenport.
Hi Jamie, we’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
When I was a kid, I loved setting up my actions figures and legos as movie sets. Instead of smashing toys together and making explosion noises with my mouth I would configure them all and look at them from vantage points I’d imagine the camera to be.
When I got into high school, a teacher asked for a volunteer to help with video editing a slideshow. That was my first time getting my hands on a video editing program and my imagination went wild. I made a handful of VERY terrible short films with my friends and my career path was very clear after that.
I graduated from film school in 2010. After a few years of moving around looking for work, I finally landed in Atlanta with consistent production-accounting gigs. As my career progressed on the accounting side, I spent my free time making youtube videos and short films. Not sure where that leaves me today, but I’m still doing it.
I’m sure you wouldn’t say it’s been obstacle free, but so far would you say the journey have been a fairly smooth road?
Biggest struggle out of college for me was my massive student loan debt. That combined with freelance film work it was hard for the first few years to make ends meet. I was lucky though to have a supportive extended family and made some great friends who gave me places to stay when I couldn’t afford rent.
Thanks – so what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?
For a living, I am a production accountant. I’ve been working in production finance for roughly 10 years, occasionally taking on other odd film jobs here and there. My expertise however is in finance now.
That being said, I am most proud of my short films. I started a small business in 2016 called “Wrong Space Films” and published a good amount of content over the past few years under that name. Most of it is an irreverent comedy which was a blast to shoot and edit.
Can you talk to us a bit about happiness and what makes you happy?
Traveling, making things. Traveling is a good way to see life from different perspectives. Making things (other than my short films I like to Cosplay and make props) just always feels good completing something. Especially if that something was made with my hands.
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Christopher Flippo Cindicate Productions Wrong Space Films
