ANA MARIA BAHIANA
*********@*****.***
Sherman Oaks CA 91403
• Oversaw the re-creation and re-purposing of goldenglobes.com, bringing it into the current format and expanding its reach and page views. From trace indexes in 2015 to 4. 4 million sessions and 7. 6 million page views in January 2018.
• Oversaw the implementation of the Golden Globes social media strategy and content. Currently at 2.1 billion followers on Facebook, 330 million followers on Twitter,
• Extensive experience in media, both online and print. 10 years working primarily online, creating, managing and editing content and social media.
• Created, developed and wrote for several music periodicals, including Beat, Playboy and BBC Culture.
• Extensive editing, translating and publishing experience. Launched, helped launch and served as editor-in-chief to five magazines dedicated to music, entertainment and culture, all of which became major brands.
• Published author of nine individual books and several omnibus and anthologies.
• Excellent communication, facilitation and presentation skills.
• Self-starter. Excellent self-management skills.
• Multitasker, creative, enjoys inventive challenges. Deputy editor, goldenglobes.com
2014-present
• Played lead in the team that rebooted and repurposed the website.
• Coordinates a diverse group of contributors. Commissions stories and accepts pitches. Manages coverage and submissions from different locations, simultaneously.
• Oversees coverage of festivals and special events (Comic Con, D23, Cinema Con).
• Edits articles, suggests rewrites and suites.
• Commissions and selects photography. Works with tools such as Photoshop and Fotor to enhance and adjust photos.
• Researches and writes special articles.
• Interacts with social media managers to create and promote content.
• Establishes and manages the editorial calendar.
Lecturer
2006-present
• Created presentations and special training for executives and professionals in media and advertising.
• For five different cycles, lectured to full houses at São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro’s Casa do Saber, an extension-like cultural center. Topics included: film theory, film history, and media under the dictatorship, creative nonfiction.
• Created and taught a series of lectures based on her two books of cultural history
– The 70s Almanac (2006) and 1964: The Almanac
Creative consultant Boathouse Row Productions
2013-present
• Generates, writes, edits and translates projects, pitches and presentations for Boathouse Row non-fiction and fiction slates.
• Curates and manages special projects – workshops, lectures, seminars and panels on arts and entertainment.
• Curated and guided the first cultural mission of top-ranking Brazilian filmmakers and executives to Los Angeles, November 2013
• Curated, guided and organized seminars on technology and media, in San Francisco and Los Angeles, for Brazil’s think tank Media Group. Creative consultant, FJ Productions
2013-present
• Generates, writes and edits scripts and narration for FJP’s slate of TV news shows and documentaries.
• Writes, produces and records voice-over narration for TV/online news shows and documentaries.
Guest reviewer, Just Seen It, PBS
2013- 2015
• Reviewed films and TV series
• Wrote reviews for the Just Seen It/PBS website
Blogger, reviewer, editor at large, UOL.com
May 2009-2015
• Generated, wrote and edited features on film openings, behind the scenes, awards, reviews and commentary for the entertainment section of Brazil’s award-winning web portal.
Writer, producer, Pacific Sense Productions
1996-2006
• Created and developed several film and TV projects with a variety of partners in Brazil, Japan and the UK.
• Wrote and produced the feature film 1972, a co-production with Miravista/Buena Vista Brazil. Released in Brazil on November 2006.
• Provided commentary on arts and entertainment for Brazil’s Radio Eldorado and Radio Bandeirantes.
EDUCATION
• Bachelor’s, Journalism, Rio de Janeiro Pontifical Catholic University
• Fulbright Fellow, Journalism, New York University A SELECTION OF PUBLISHED WORKS
Celluloid Ceiling: Latin America, Supernova Books, London, 2014. 1964: The Almanac, Companhia das Letras, São Paulo, Brazil, 2014. How to See a Movie, Nova Fronteira, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2012. The 70s Almanac, Essays. Ediouro, Rio de Janeiro, 2006 The Light of the Lens: Interviews with 12 American Directors. Editora Globo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 1995
TRANSLATION
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls/ Como a Geração Sexo Drogas e Rock N Roll Salvou Hollywood, Peter Biskind, Intrínseca, Rio de Janeiro, 2006. Dispatches/ Despachos do Front, Michael Herr, Objetiva, Rio de Janeiro, 2005. MISCELLANEOUS
Interview: Kathryn Bigelow, in the anthology Kathryn Bigelow: Interviews (Conversations with Filmmakers), org. Peter Keough, University Press of Mississippi, 2013. Also in Celluloid Ceiling, Supernova Books, London, 2014.
“An Offer He Could Not Refuse: Francis Ford Coppola on The Godfather III,” in the anthology The Godfather Family Album, Taschen America, Los Angeles, 2009.
“Tom Jobim”, “Caetano Veloso”, “Jorge Benjor” - curated, researched and wrote bilingual
(English-Portuguese) booklets for these CD boxed sets, Universal Music, 2007-2008
• For portfolio: https://anamariabahiana.contently.com/
• For editing and management work: https://www.goldenglobes.com/