Join us for our WIF Second Tuesday event to talk about Covid set safety. We still all haven't gotten this down folks and need to make it second nature so our industry survives and thrives. Questions will be answered by COVID Supervisors who walk the walk and keep us safe.
Introduction by TST Chair: Abie Ekenezar.
d Derek Johnson (KaiFilms) will moderate the discussion with Producer Beth Farnham and Covid Set Supervisors:
Andrea Hays, now semi-retired, returned to her first love, nursing, in time for another international medical crisis and now works as a COVID Compliance Officer. Andrea was involved in the Seattle theater and film scene in the 1980's to early 90's and at the beginning of the AIDS crisis, she thought the best way to help was to train to assist those afflicted. Finding she was good at it, she went back to school for nursing. Her favorite compliment was from a patient who said, “You make dying fun.”
Joshua Geary is currently certified as a COVID Compliance Officer. He completed over 13 years in the US Army where he trained as a combat medic and LPN/LVN, and has over 15 years nursing experience. His focus included Critical Care (Post Anesthesia Care, Pediatric Intensive Care, Adult Intensive Care, and Progressive Care), General Surgery, Orthopedic Surgery, Vascular Surgery, and ENT Surgery nursing. Leaving active duty in 2017, his civilian nursing experience includes in patient and out patient hemodialysis and plasmapheresis, and administrative/leadership roles in long term skilled nursing facility settings. He is currently Director of Nursing at an assisted living community, providing long term care with a focus on behavioral and mental health.
Morgan Hendrickson has worked freelance in event and media production for 6 1/2 years as a production assistant, and in the art, camera, locations, and grip & electric departments. Since July 2020, Morgan works mainly as a COVID Compliance Officer on union and non-union film and still shoots.
Phil McFall is an Adjunct EMT Instructor, COVID Compliance Advisor and FEMA EMT, and the founder of High Caliber Consulting and Firearms Instruction, LLC. He received his education from Emergency Medicine/Fire Academy at Colorado Mountain Collage. He has certificates in Covid 19 Planning-Production Safety, NREMT Emergency Medical Tech, CPR, Basic Life Support, Fire Cause and Determination, Incident Command System, and is an S-359 Medic Unit Leader.
Trina Griffin is a filmmaker who has worked in California and the Seattle film community since 1998 and has worked countless positions as assistant director, art director, grip, set designer, editor, actor, writer, volunteer coordinator director, and film screener manager and producer.
This year Trina became certified as a COVID Compliance Set Supervisor. A mother of four, grandmother of 9, Trina is currently a film student at Shoreline Community College and co-founder of Rising Reels Film Camp, launching in 2021, that will teach BIPOC children to become film makers.
"I have a dream to bring a strong thriving film industry to the Seattle are."