Show notes
Opening Weekend: Selling Hollywood with Jim Fredrick continues on the TG&TG feed.
Barbara Glazer was one of our very first guests on this podcast, back in 2019. She's also one of the industry's true glass-ceiling breakers: co-founder of The Ant Farm, and the creative leader behind campaigns for Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean, and Kill Bill among hundreds of others. She sits down with Jim Fredrick to trace a career that started by accident on a Moviola upright and ended up reshaping who gets to run a trailer house.
Takeaways:
- A trailer she never meant to cut. Barbara started in documentaries. A client short on cash brought in a trailer for The Dead Zone as payment in 1982, and she ended up cutting it herself.
- She broke the glass ceiling without setting out to. She built a partnership at Silver/Glazer, then left after fifteen years to co-found The Ant Farm in 1997, one of the only women running a shop like it at the time.
- Culture was the whole strategy. She wanted to train and nurture people in a business that didn't always do that, and it's a big part of why Ant Farm grew as fast as it did.
Just remember:
- "Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke." — Barbara Glazer
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