Simona Maican

Spent a year at Lightaholic running production on commercial campaigns and visual content for clients across retail, hospitality and food. The work included shopping mall campaigns, fashion editorials, food photography for major chains, and a stretch of shoots at Singureni Manor producing styled content for hospitality and lifestyle brands. I handled the full production cycle on each project: client briefs, location scouting, crew booking, scheduling, talent and prop coordination, and on-set delivery. It was a year of high turnover and tight budgets, which sharpened my ability to keep creative quality up while moving fast.

As a Production Coordinator at Digital Spirit I managed contracts, invoices, and the distribution of filming documents, ensuring smooth coordination of locations and timely progress, as well as handling purchases and other logistical tasks to support the production process.

Worked as Art Department Coordinator on Tim Burton’s Wednesday for Netflix and MGM, supporting the production design team on a show that built one of the most distinctive visual worlds on streaming in recent years. Day to day, I coordinated approvals across departments, managed vendor relationships and procurement for set construction and dressing, tracked budgets and purchase orders, and kept the flow of information moving between the production design lead, set decorators, prop masters, and the wider production office. Working on a Tim Burton set is its own kind of school. The visual ambition is enormous, the deadlines are real, and you learn very quickly how to keep creative quality and operational discipline alive in the same breath.