Professional Profile:
Kris Golashesky,
Transportation Office
Coordinator and
Location Scout
After the sports marketing
firm that employed Kris
Golashesky for 10 years folded,
she took a position in events
planning with Special
Olympics, but soon discovered
the job was less about events
and more about fundraising.
Through a friend she became
familiar with opportunities in
film and television production
and decided to make a career
change.
Hired as transportation
office coordinator on the
feature Girl, Interrupted,
Golashesky learned the tasks quickly. She went on to work in the same
capacity on The Contender.
Having become friendly with the staff at the Virginia Film Office, they
hired her to do some location scouting for them, leading to work for loca-
tion manager Charlie Baxter on the film The Replacements.
She went on to work on
Lucky Numbers, serving as a
personal assistant (driver) for
actress Lisa Kudrow. After
Lucky Numbers, she went to
work on the film Hannibal. In
addition to being the trans-
portation office coordinator on
the picture, she also worked for
Charlie Baxter as a location
scout.
"The director, Ridley Scott, had a keen eye for what he wanted and the
location manager was concerned at not being able to find exactly what he
was looking for. I went out for a month, shooting various locations in and
What do you like
least about your job?
"What I like least of all
is that you are confined
to four walls. When
people ask the question,
`Was such and such
piece of equipment at such and such loca-
tion?' I would have no clue. I'm only a
messenger of the information that is provided
to me."--Kris Golashesky
What do you love most
about your job?
"What I love most is that two and two equals
four. You're pretty regimented. All the pur-
chase orders and everything lines up, and at
the end of the shoot the accountants hug
you."--Kris Golashesky
VOICES OF
EXPERIENCE
"There are so
many people who want
to get into film jobs
that you've got to go
the extra mile to
survive."--Kris Golashesky
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