Bio of Jody Hummer

Jody Hummer has a diverse background in location management,
casting and community relations with the film industry.
Her specialty is the engagement of neighborhood,
government and business partnerships as a high profile liaison.

Jody earned a B.A. in Photography and Cinema from The Ohio State University.
She started her film career at David & Lee Talent Management in Cleveland under
the leadership of Karen Fields.
Next she was asked to join The Media Group, Columbus,
where she worked her way from production assistant to line producer.

After 3 years, she moved into freelance services,
coordinating national commercials and casting supporting and local roles
for feature and TV films shot in the American heartland including:
Heart of Steel, The River, Amerika, Geronimo, The Jesse Owens Story,
Lakota Woman, and Thunderheart.

In 1988, Jody began location scouting and management in Los Angeles.
Feature film and TV credits as scout and assistant location manager include:
Rain Man, For the Boys, The Grifters, The Fabulous Baker Boys,
Frankie and Johnny, Rising Sun, and A Few Good Men.

She progressed to Location Manager on films that include:
What's Love Got to Do With It,
Twilight (the one with Paul Newman),
A Civil Action,
HBO's If These Walls Could Talk I,
The Fast & the Furious 1 (Westminster Scenes)
The Indian in the Cupboard,
Austin Powers I,
The Hours,
Freaky Friday,
The Boy Next Door (the one with Jennifer Lopez)
Over Her Dead Body (the one with Eva Longoria and Paul Rudd)
For Your Consideration, and
The Hunted (Portland Hawthorne Bridge Scenes)

Her Industry IMDB Credits:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0401871/

Between films, she worked for Silver Projects as a field producer
for news campaigns featuring people and their stories in seven states:
New York, Utah, Oklahoma, Ohio, Missouri, Texas and California.

Jody co-produced Black Mesa, a documentary about Navajo and Hopi Indians
who fight unsustainable energy development in Arizona.
The project earned a Distinguished Achievement Award
from the International Documentary Association.

In 2004, Jody developed Film Bridge, a community-building strategy
to improve the mutual benefits of filming, neighborhoods and business.
The project received recommendation from the California Film Commission.

She introduced filming for the Getty Conservation Institute's:
Incentives for the Preservation and Rehabilitation
of Historic Homes in the City of Los Angeles,
and was a lead film consultant for the urban planning study:
The Future of Filming in Downtown Los Angeles.

In 2005, she served with a Red Cross Disaster Team
on the Mississsippi Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina.

Jody is known to specialize in managing scenes for films with unusual community impact
and handled such assignments for The Fast and the Furious, and Billy Friedkin's The Hunted.
From 2007 to 2008, she continued her training and interest in geographic information systems (GIS),
historic preservation and community development while scouting and managing projects for Gold Circle Films,
Warner Brothers, ABC and NBC Television.

In the spring of 2008, she was invited to engage Los Angeles Chinatown
as the first Film Bridge District in the USA to be managed as a mutual benefit program
between artist and audience, filmmaker and neighborhood.
From 2008 to present, Jody has brought and has managed of this date,
over 500 projects in Chinatown for commercials,
still photography, music videos, TV series,
features and new media over the past 12 years.

Jody is a Founder of the Location Managers Guild International, LMGI,
and is known as a creative professional
dedicated to building successful partnerships
between the film industry and the real world.

About Film Bridge

Made in Chinatown

Film Bridge
Offering support to location managers, property owners and communities
Serving to foster the mutual benefits of filming
with neighborhoods and business