About a year ago, I realized that I love leading a team and that directing is an end game for me. That experience led to art directing, writing, visualizing ⎯ it’s all kind of connected. They were just starting up at that point, and they were basically like, “Come hang out on our shoot.” It was like a bunch of kids having fun. So I started ACing and working at a camera rental house, which is how I met the guys at Variable: Jon and Tyler Ginter and Khalid Mohtaseb. But eventually, I decided that if I was going to work in film, then I needed to know what I was doing. I worked on a few other features with them. A lot of people told me you’ll never have a better experience than when you work with the Happy Madison crew. He’s going to give you a job.” So that’s how I started PAing. Five minutes later, he brought the production coordinator over, and he was like, “This is Frankie. I ended up talking to him, and I told him I was broke. But one day during lunch, a dude from the film came over and asked me for directions to a restaurant nearby. I was making $7 an hour as an extra, and I literally had $69 in my bank account. I felt like I needed an adventure in my life, so I quit the whales and went to the set. They were casting extras, so I gave him my email on a whim, and two weeks later he asked me to come on set. But one day on the boat, I met the casting director for that Adam Sandler movie, Grown Ups. So I ended up working on a whale-watching boat instead. I actually went to school to be a reporter, but I couldn’t find a reporting job.
We asked Elle how she did.ĭid you always know you wanted to become a director? Over the past few years, Elle has built up an impressive body of work as a director, carving out a name for herself in a space where it can often seem impossible to get any recognition. “Your work alone won’t always speak for you.” “I do think you need to be strategic about it,” Elle told us, regarding her recent transition into directing. If luck has had anything to do with it, it’s luck that she made herself. But in reality, Elle is the type of person who makes the most of every opportunity. On paper it might look like a bunch of happenstance. As luck would have it, her job on the boat eventually led her onto major Hollywood sets with people like Adam Sandler and David Spade, which then led her to work with Brooklyn-based production company Variable, which ultimately led her to discover her real passion: directing. She worked on a whale-watching boat and talked to people about whales. After finishing her degree in journalism, Elle literally found herself out to sea. If there is such thing as a “traditional path” to becoming a film director, Elle Ginter did not take it.
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