Applying Entrepreneurship to the Arts

Paula Landry, MBA is an author and award-winning writer/producer creating stories to help create connections and erase loneliness. Projects include feature films, episodic content, podcasts, and VR films. Ms. Landry creates media budgets, schedules, and business plans, coaching entrepreneurial media makers, artists, performers and creatives. Landry teaches media in NYC, online and worldwide including graduate programs at Wagner College, and Metropolitan College of New York as well as to performers at The Actors Fund, and filmmakers at FilmShop and NYC Women Filmmakers where she serves on the Board of Directors. Books include Scheduling and Budgeting Your Film: A Panic- Free Guide, 2nd ed. (Taylor & Francis); and The Business of Film (Taylor & Francis) with Stephen Greenwald. Clients include Fortune 500 companies as well as Christie's, Pearson Television, Entertainment Weekly, Symposium X, Mission Society, and Smile Train. Films have debuted at Sundance, Chelsea Film Festival, CineVegas, winning awards from Best Actors FilmFest, Columbia Pictures Screen Gems, Time Warner Showtime Audience Award, WorldFest Houston; writing awards - Lugnut Award, 2nd Rounder at Austin FF, a semi-finalist at Made in NY Writer's Room. Her website is www.paulalandry.com