Jennifer Bronstein Sargent
 

Background

As an Executive Producer and Video Director with over 15 years of experience in New York and California, I’ve produced and directed content for television, documentaries, digital media, as well as advertising and marketing campaigns. I have guided numerous clients and creative teams throughout the development and execution of best-in-class videos in support of their goals.

I have been responsible for leading teams and overseeing videos from development through production and final delivery. I enjoy establishing clear pathways and channels of communication across multiple stakeholders and teams to create a supportive and functional production process.

Skills & Experience

  • Over 15 years of experience as a producer at major advertising and PR agencies and commercial production companies.

  • Experience with commercial television, digital, and video and motion graphics production and post-production.

  • Establish mutual partnership with creative teams during ideation, to support the accounts’ strategic and production goals.

  • Lead production through all phases, ensuring projects exceed expectations, deliver on message and within budget.

  • Maintain relationships and in-depth knowledge of the production community, resources, crew, and vendors. 

  • Motivate multidisciplinary teams and build relationships based on a natural leadership style and servant-leadership philosophy. 

  • Creative problem solver who thrives in complex scenarios. Ability to find consensus to create the best work possible.

Executive Producer @ Omnicom Studios | 2023 - Present

Advertising Producer responsible for executing TV first and social media video campaigns. Source and manage external vendors, and liaise with business leads, creatives, strategists, finance and clients. Direct and produce video series and maintain a high level of creative and quality across all projects. Establish and communicate processes for successful production and strategic vision. 

Clients

  • Energy Upgrade California

  • Car Gurus

  • Expedia

  • BMW

  • Blue Moon

Video Content Consultant/Video Director @ Freelance | 2023

Video Producer and Director working in marketing, communications and advertising. Writing, Directing, Producing and Post Producing high quality content for brands. Specializing in corporate storytelling and documentary-style production.

Clients

  • Cruise

  • REDF

  • Glass & Marker

  • Ernst & Young

  • The Big Picture

  • Founder’s Fun

Executive Producer @ Edelman | 2019 - 2022 (impacted by layoffs)

Agency EP responsible for executing social, broadcast, interactive, and earned media assets for media campaigns, internal communications, and other outputs. Source and manage external vendors, and liaise with account teams and client contacts. Direct and produce video series and maintain a high level of creative and quality across all projects. Establish and communicate processes for successful production and strategic vision.

Clients

  • Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation

  • Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance

  • Sacramento Department of Behavioral Health

  • Hologic

  • Gold Bond

  • Getaround

  • AbbVie

  • Genentech

  • Jazz Pharmaceuticals

  • Allegra

  • eBay 

  • Scholastic

  • PayPal

  • Eli Lilly

  • Dolby

  • Microsoft

  • Taco Bell & TB Foundation

  • Adobe

  • DuPont

  • Starbucks

Senior Producer/Director @ Brit + Co | 2018 - 2019

Produce and direct video content across the Brit + Co brand, including branded and social platforms and the BUILD Brunch with Brit series. Responsible for idea generation, pitching, development, script writing, production oversight and post production for multiple short-form series focused on educating and inspiring creative, millennial women.

Senior Digital Media Director/Producer @ Spacestation | 2016 - 2018

Responsible for overseeing award-winning* digital series and branded media content from client bid through finished project. Write scripts, outlines, breakdowns, and hotsheets, oversee production schedules and budgets, build production crews, cast and prep talent, manage crews, direct talent and crew on set, oversee post production and story, write voice over, book and hande editors, colorists and audio mixers, as well as manage client expectations and deadlines throughout project.

Clients

  • Bravo

  • Craftsy / Bluprint

  • Dremel

  • 3Doodler

  • NBC / Today Show

  • Bob’s Red Mill

  • Food Network*

  • Genius Kitchen

  • BBC America

  • IFC

  • Lipton

  • McCormick* (Cynopsis)

TV Field Producer @ Freelance | 2009 - 2016

Produce award-winning unscripted television series from development through finished project. Write scripts, outlines, breakdowns, and hotsheets, oversee production schedules and budgets, build out production crews, run casting and prep talent, scout and book locations, manage teams, direct talent and crew on set, manage post-production, write voice-over and graphics copy, and execute against network notes and deadlines throughout the project.

Series / Networks

  • Buying Naked - TLC

  • The Tim Ferriss Experiment - Turner

  • Secret Wedding - TLC

  • Monsters Inside Me - Animal Planet

  • Deadly Ambition - Biography

  • Comedy Central Presents:15 - Comedy Central

  • Car Hunters - History Channel

  • Island Life - HGTV

  • Beat Bobby Flay - Food Network

  • The Singles Project - Bravo* (Emmy)

  • Find My First Love - FYI

  • The Fall of ’87 - ESPN 30 for 30* (TriBeCa)

Programming & Development @ A&E Networks|2010-2012

Series

  • Russian Doll’s

  • Roseanne’s Nuts

  • Vanished with Beth Holloway

  • Hef’s Runaway Bride and Coming Home

  • Dance Moms

  • Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition

  • America’s Most Wanted

  • America’s Supernanny

  • 24 Hour Catwalk

On-Air Strategic & Media Planning @ Nickelodeon/Viacom | 2010

Entertainment Editor @ Screenrush.co.uk & Allociné.fr | 2008

Director, Steel Birds, based on Chekhov’s Three Sisters @ EstroGenius Theatre Festival | 2016* (NYIT)

Festival Producer, Rendez-Vous with French Cinema at Lincoln Center @ UniFrance USA | 2008-2010

Associate Producer/French Fixer, Blood, Sweat and Gears: Racing Clean to the Tour de France @ Sundance Channel | 2008

Assistant to the Artistic Director @ Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey | 2006-2009

Fashion Editorials Assistant @ Harper’s Bazaar|2004-2005

Education

Drew University, American University of Paris BA Philosophy, BA French
Honors: Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa Society & National French Honor Society
Languages: Fluent French, Conversational German/Italian

Awards*

Cynopsis Short Form Video Festival Award (2018) - Man Crafted by Food Network & McCormick

Tribeca Film Festival -  Spotlight Documentary (2017) - The Year of the Scab, ESPN 30 for 30

New York Innovative Theatre Award - Nominated, Best Original Production (2016) - Steel Birds

Emmy Award Outstanding Creative Achievement in Interactive Media Multiplatform Storytelling (2015) The Singles Project, Bravo