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Tressa Sanders, founder of Three West Creative Development, Asabi Publishing, and Ijaba Films, provides active learning, workshops for business Image, publishing, creative writing, graphics design, and filmmaking. In addition, she has authored the curriculum for the Big Bad Business Image, Concise Publishing, and Creative Writing workshops as well as several literary titles. Tressa also holds a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Psychology and authored the introduction for a book titled “A Peek Inside the Goo: Depression & The Borderline Personality”.
Prior to becoming a filmmaker, Tressa was a well established Information Technology professional working with the largest IT, communication, utilities and financial companies in the country. Some of the companies Tressa has worked for include, the New York Independent System Operator, GE Capital Business Asset Funding, IBM Global Services, AT & T Wireless, Hewlett Packard, MCI/Worldcom, GTE, and Sprint. Her areas of expertise include: Publishing Startup & Planning, Business Image Planning, Creative Writing Development, Effective Graphics Design, Cost Conservative Filmmaking.
I’m thrilled to announce a wonderful friend of mine sent me an invitation for Google Wave. So far it’s pretty simple. I like that. Having tools to accomplish what you need is best when they are simple. I’m hoping to be able to pull together and manage a few film projects with this tool. It’s [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, February 21, 2010
I apologize for not having posted in a while. I’m moving to another state, selling my house, finishing up wedding videos from 2009, working on a new video series, reviving and re-planning a puzzle hunt road rally game, upgrading scripts on all of my websites (and there are many), planning to film a wedding in [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, November 29, 2009
In light of my ramble about being the filmmaker I want to be, I have been taking it upon myself to be a more active filmmaker. At 1am the night before Thanks Giving, I made a crazy impulsive decision to drive to Plymouth, MA for the National Day Of Mourning gathering near Plymouth Rock. It [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, November 29, 2009
This past month has been a real eye opener. Besides reinforcing my realization that I need to start hiring editors for my projects, it has lead me to think a little more carefully about being the filmmaker I want to be instead of going with the “norm” when it may not be the best for [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, October 17, 2009
Becoming a filmmaker is a big step that requires you to use and have access to many resources in order to not only make the best films you can but to handle all tasks not related to a specific film project. There is a lot more to making films than just the movies themselves. I [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, October 11, 2009
It’s been a little longer than I would have liked since my last blog post but I still really enjoy having this outlet to share my thoughts and creative experiences. However, sometimes there is just too much going on in life to sit down and take time to write. But the more wonderful and supportive [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 13, 2009
Well, I had to make a very difficult decision to shoot more footage for my documentary “Our Side of Joy”. After having returned from an excellent workshop on documentary story structure given by Fernanda Rossi, I knew I was going to have to do more shooting. The best thing is that the workshop was so excellent [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, May 26, 2009
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The Idea: One online Marketplace where Buyers can find Programmers to fulfill the needs of their software projects. This is the basic idea although rentacoder.com (Rent-A-Coder) also has other types of providers on their site as well, (i.e. writers, personal assistants, marketers, etc.). So how does rentacoder.com (Rent-A-Coder) work? Simple. As a buyer, you sign [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 8, 2009
So, I’m planning another trip out of the country and the fist thing that came to mind was how heavy my bags and gear were on my last trip. After my last trip, I’d already decided that I absolutely had to travel lighter on future international excursions. I have always made an effort to travel light [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 7, 2009
I never thought I would need to write an article of this nature, however, due to the overwhelming flood of snore inducing e-mails from readers hoping for publishing deals or to obtain acting and/or film crew jobs, I feel I must offer some advice. I’m not exactly sure what is being taught in school these days [...]
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