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Jango

Jango
Angela GiarratanaDebut: #14 Short Film, Big Crew (w/ Artoun Nazareth)1 appearance
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"The gaffer with a lifelong obsession with duct tape and sticking things together."

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1:50 (48s)
CHARACTER_INTRO

The Crew of Sunlight Roll Call

The crew of the Sundance short film 'Sunlight' introduces themselves, revealing a hierarchy of low-level production roles including a career PA and a 'second second' assistant director.

"My name is Frederick Jensen and I've been an assistant director for at least this production."

"I am Carrie Johnson and I am a career PA. I love to do it, there is nothing better."

"My name is Don and I was the script sup. I, you know, took care of the script stuff."

#Film Production#Sundance#Crew Hierarchy
8:20 (1m 15s)
ESCALATION

Jango's Duct Tape Miracle and Failure

Jango discusses her lifelong obsession with duct tape, including taping an iceberg back together, but breaks down over her inability to tape the director to the ice to prevent his death.

"The way you gaff taped that iceberg back together, I mean, why we have global warming? Just send you in there."

"Some stuff doesn't tape. Sometimes you can't tape things back together and you have to know that you aren't God."

"I've not been able to tape a director to a cube of ice and then he fell."

#Gaffer#Production Design#Equipment Failure
21:27 (2m 1s)
CHARACTER_INTRO

The Crew of Sunlight: A Sundance Panel of Underappreciated Laborers

The cast of the short film 'Sunlight' is unavailable, so the panel features the crew: an AD, a gaffer, a career PA, a second-second, and a script supervisor, all sharing their traumatic production stories.

"My name is Frederick Jensen and I've been an assistant director for at least this production and the director's last short film."

"Hey, I'm Carrie Johnson and I am a career PA. I love to do it, there is nothing better."

"Donny boy! Donny with the Frappuccinos!"

#Film Production#Sundance#Crew Life
29:11 (4m 39s)
TABLE_BREAK

Crew to Crew Truths: Acting is Easy and Dialysis is Hard

The crew vents their frustrations about actors, claiming memorizing lines is easy compared to taping icebergs together or performing emergency dialysis on Shaka.

"I don't think it's that hard to act. That's my crew to crew truth."

"If you need dialysis, bring a nurse. It's hard to learn on the fly."

"I duct tape my cheeks to my ears, folks. Same duct tape I killed that man with."

#Labor Relations#Medical Malpractice#Gaffer Tape
39:30 (25s)
BACKSTORY_REVEAL

Jango's Duct Tape Miracle

Jango reveals her secret gaffer skill: using massive amounts of duct tape to hold a breaking sheet of ice together during an Antarctic shoot.

"As a gaffer, you guys don't know all the shit I do with the duct tape."

"We get news the sheet of ice that we're on is breaking apart. And all I remember is you, Jango, yelling, I'm on it!"

#Gaffer#Production Secrets#Indie Film
41:20 (30s)
CHARACTER_INTRO

The Crew of Sunlight Introductions

The crew of the Sundance short film 'Sunlight' introduces themselves, including a career PA and an AD who admits his previous work was just a TikTok.

"It wasn't a short film, it was more of a TikTok. I wasn't really the assistant director, I filmed it."

"I am a career PA. I love to do it, there is nothing better."

#Film Crew#Sundance#Career PA

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