Danielle Weinstock, a film and television producer for almost two decades, has worked on more than thirty feature films, television shows, mini-series, movies made for television and documentaries. As a single working mother, Danielle has a unique perspective on what it takes to build a successful career on one’s own terms, and she shares her hard earned experiences in her debut book Can This Elephant Curtsy On Cue? Life Lessons Learned On A Film Set For Women In Business.
Since entering show business in 1988, Danielle has worked her way up the career ladder to produce some of today’s most successful television series. She has contributed to such major projects as Weeds, Crossing Jordan, The Minor Accomplishments Of Jackie Woodman, 24, White Fang II, Fantasy Island and The Agency. She also wrote the documentary A Song's Best Friend: John Denver Remembered, which aired on PBS.
A member of both the Directors Guild of America and the Producers Guild of America, Danielle began her career as a CPA/financial advisor to some of Hollywood’s biggest names. Looking for an even greater challenge, she left the 9 to 5 world for fourteen-hour days on a film set. Insistent on understanding the entire filmmaking process, Danielle accepted a variety of jobs, initially as a production accountant to gain financial insight, then as a production executive to better understand storytelling. Then she worked as an associate producer to learn post-production and as a production manager to oversee the entire day to day filmmaking process. Currently, she is working as a television producer, a job that integrates and utilizes all the skills she has developed and all the lessons she has learned thus far.
With each position and promotion, Danielle realized she was carefully assembling a vocational puzzle that reflected a flourishing film career. Over time, her talent for supporting the creative process while managing people, timelines, budgets, eccentric celebrities, balky animals, complex stunt sequences and the daily crises that comprise filmmaking would result in a variety of colorful experiences and lessons learned that would have broad applicability. These experiences and lessons have taught her how to survive and even thrive in business by stretching her own limitations to overcome seemingly impossible obstacles and deadlines. Can This Elephant Curtsy On Cue? Life Lessons Learned On A Film Set for Women In Business will help working women in all types of businesses at all levels achieve career success.