- published: 16 Aug 2010
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A unit production manager (UPM) is the Directors Guild of America–approved title for the top below-the-line staff position responsible for the administration of a feature film or TV production. Alternate titles for this role on non-DGA signatory productions are production manager or production supervisor. He or she works closely with the project's line producer. It is not uncommon for the line producer to function as UPM as well.
A senior producer may assign a UPM to work concurrently on more than one production, for film, theatre, or television.
A UPM is usually hired by a film producer or television producer, and is responsible for managing the production and regulating the costs of delivering the expected film or television show on budget at the end of principal photography. Based on a shooting script, the UPM will create a working budget during pre-production, prior to the start of principal photography, thereby charting a recommended budgetary course. Typically, a Producer will oversee all the cost-related decisions, including above-the-line expenditures (especially during pre-production). However, the UPM is responsible for the more detailed planning and execution of the below-the-line costs (primarily for physical production). The film's director will select important department heads (keys) or support personnel related to his work, including the casting director, cinematographer, costume designer, production designer, and film editor. For below-the-line matters, the UPM often negotiates deals (for location, equipment, etc.) and hires the remaining crew, typically on the recommendation of the keys and/or based on prior experience with trusted individuals.
Actors: José María Blanco (actor), Angelo Orlando (director), Angelo Orlando (writer), Angelo Orlando (producer), Valentina Carnelutti (actress), Xavier Capdet (actor), Fabio Ferri (actor), Michele Venitucci (actor), Erika Manoni (editor), Isabella Perricone (writer), Saro Cosentino (composer), Efthymia Zymvragaki (producer), Esther Cuspinera (actress), Carla Lladó (actress), Marina Esteve (actress),
Plot: It's a typical day like many others in the life of Bobo Benso. But this time, something breaks the routine: a stranger is installed in home... says his name is Rocco. Bobo slowly discovers has been overrun, excluded, evicted from his own life and is now in no man's land.
Genres: Drama,Actors: Sharon Stone (actress), David Thewlis (actor), Charlotte Rampling (actress), Charlotte Rampling (actress), Sharon Stone (actress), Michael Meadows (producer), Christina Hacopian (producer), Mario Kassar (actor), David Morrissey (actor), David Morrissey (actor), David Thewlis (actor), Paul Apel (producer), Alan Baral (producer), Michael Caton-Jones (actor), Keith Hatcher (actor),
Genres: Documentary, Short,Actors: Michael Stipe (producer), Billy Crystal (actor), Mark Borchardt (actor), Jim McKay (producer), Todd Bishop (miscellaneous crew), Chris Smith (director), Chris Smith (producer), Mike Schank (composer), Mike Schank (actor), Mike Schank (actor), Barry Poltermann (editor), Sarah Price (producer), Tommy Dallace (actor), Tom Beach (actor), Ken Keen (actor),
Plot: On the northwest side of Milwaukee, Mark Borchardt dreams the American dream: for him, it's making movies. Using relatives, local theater talent, slacker friends, his Mastercard, and $3,000 from his Uncle Bill, Mark strives over three years to finish "Covan," a short horror film. His own personal demons (alcohol, gambling, a dysfunctional family) plague him, but he desperately wants to overcome self-doubt and avoid failure. In moments of reflection, Mark sees his story as quintessentially American, and its the nature and nuance of his dream that this film explores.
Keywords: actor, actress, adult-lives-at-home, ambition, american-football, bath, bathtub, beard, beer, brother-brother-relationshipActors: Theodoros Angelopoulos (writer), Ruth Waldburger (producer), Theodoros Angelopoulos (writer), Gerasimos Skiadaressis (actor), Theodoros Angelopoulos (producer), Giannis Voglis (actor), Athinodoros Prousalis (actor), Ilias Logothetis (actor), Marcello Mastroianni (actor), Mihalis Giannatos (actor), Jeanne Moreau (actress), Kostas Lambropoulos (producer), Dimitris Poulikakos (actor), Theodoros Angelopoulos (director), Tonino Guerra (writer),
Plot: Alexandre, a TV reporter, is working for a few days in a border town, where a lot of refugees from Albania, Turkey and Kurdistan are packed in. Among them, he notices an old man and thinks he is an important Greek politician who disappeared mysteriously a few years ago. Back in Athens, he asks this politician's former wife to come and identify him. A slow and dry meditation about inhumanity of borders.
Keywords: animal-in-title, border, bridge, crew, immigrant, immigration, love-at-first-sight, minimalism, part-of-trilogy, philosophicalActors: Ichirô Zaitsu (actor), Norihei Miki (actor), Kin'ya Aikawa (actor), Aki Takejô (actress), Michiyo Yokoyama (actress), Hiromitsu Suzuki (actor), Tamori (actor), Taisaku Akino (actor), Terumi Azuma (actress), Masaharu Segawa (director), Kayako Sono (actress), Taku Izumi (composer), Kazuo Ôta (editor), Toshiaki Minami (actor), Fujio Akatsuka (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Zdena Hadrbolcová (actress), Dagmar Havlová (actress), Karel Augusta (actor), Jirí Krampol (actor), Jan Kraus (actor), Petr Hapka (composer), Dana Vávrová (actress), Jirí Lábus (actor), Jirí Zahajský (actor), Josef Bláha (actor), Iva Janzurová (actress), Jana Krausová (actress), Petr Skarke (actor), Zuzana Bydzovská (actress), Pavlína Mourková (actress),
Genres: ,Actors: Jack May (actor), Lindsay Shonteff (producer), Lindsay Shonteff (director), Lindsay Shonteff (writer), Jack Smethurst (actor), Anthony Jacobs (actor), Sue Bond (actress), Neville Barber (actor), Fred Hugh (actor), Alan Gorrie (composer), Toby Lennon (actor), Linda Dean (actress), Jackson J. Bowdell (editor), Louisa Livingston (actress), Greta Nelson (actress),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Elzbieta Czyzewska (actress), Andrzej Korzynski (composer), Andrzej Wajda (writer), Andrzej Wajda (director), Andrzej Lapicki (actor), Leonard Pietraszak (actor), Beata Tyszkiewicz (actress), Daniel Olbrychski (actor), Jerzy Karaszkiewicz (actor), Halina Prugar-Ketling (editor), Malgorzata Potocka (actress), Adam Pawlikowski (actor), Bogumil Kobiela (actor), Jacek Domanski (actor), Bohdan Ejmont (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Larry Storch (actor), Peter Boyle (actor), Adam Arkin (actor), Shepperd Strudwick (actor), Avery Schreiber (actor), Xavier Cugat (actor), Keenan Wynn (actor), Alan Arkin (actor), Ed Begley (actor), Murphy Dunne (actor), Patrick Kennedy (editor), Sherry Jackson (actress), Stubby Kaye (actor), Guy Stockwell (actor), Susan Oliver (actress),
Plot: Unusual sci-fi invasion film, with a black-comedy twist: The Earth is taken over by The Monitors, aliens who run it like hall monitors in a 1950's high school, with overtones of Big Brother. The film follows the progress of the human underground rebellion. The twist is that as the film goes on, the audience's sympathies shift to the aliens, who are basically benevolent. When the humans manage to oust them, it's back to corruption and bribery by the usual suspects.
Keywords: 1960s, airplane, alien, alien-invasion, bathrobe, bomb, bowler-hat, cameo, chicago-illinois, cigarette-smoking