Photo-Illustration: The Cut This past Friday, the Cut hosted a virtual How I Get It Done panel in honor of this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The panel was sponsored by Stella Artois and led by Cut senior editor Kerensa Cadenas, who was joined by three pioneers in the film industry to discuss navigating working from home and how the film industry has shifted during the pandemic.
These remarkable women shared with the Cut how they’re getting it done these days. Below, read highlights from the event.“It’s all about schedule and continuously double checking, because the schedule is always shifting. I am generally waking up, and before coffee, having to do the tech check. Just to make sure I am not going to get thrown off the internet, again, during a Zoom interview.”“It was during the time when our country was experiencing the random shootings going on, almost biweekly.
Zoe Lister-Jones, actress, producer, director, and writer Photo: Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP/Shutterstock On work-life balance: “The work-life balance is always difficult. I think any of us can speak to this when you’re creating your own work and the work is mirroring your life and you’re a creative person. I always have a hard time setting those distinctions because there’s not really an hour in the day where I might not have an idea that I need to then put onto paper. I never have like a 10 p.m. rule, or anything like that, which I probably should.”“It’s made me look at how I want to live my life outside of my work.