Aerial Longmire began her career in television over 18 years ago in the Washington, DC metro area. She has worked in promotions, field production, live TV, post-production, and animation. She has ten years of experience in product management roles, and six years of experience managing animation teams. She shines at keeping an eye to the details, while never forgetting the big picture.
She has a knack for bridging the gap between clients, who know their messages very well, and artists, who know their crafts very well. She brings order from the chaos by assessing the goals and scope of a project, breaking it into manageable milestones, prioritizing them, and mapping them to a feasible delivery schedule.
Aerial just wrapped up a busy political cycle in December 2018. She was the production coordinator at MVAR Media, a Democratic media consulting firm. There she was responsible for managing the production schedule, booking crews nationwide, processing invoices and timecards, and negotiating with vendors.
Prior to that, she worked with Motiplex Media, a full-service boutique 3D and 2D animation company in Washington, DC. At Motiplex, she managed all of the day-to-day tasks of the company, such as budgeting and conceptualizing projects, moving projects through the animation pipeline, coordinating feedback, making final deliveries, invoicing clients, and following up on payment. Before Motiplex, she was an Animation Producer and Production Manager for Rebel Arts.
For the past six years, Aerial has specialized in managing animation-oriented projects. Before Rebel Arts, she ran a team of four animators at Half Yard Productions. They were the in-house animation team for all Half Yard programs from 2014 to 2016. Prior to that, she spent almost two years managing animation projects at Pixeldust Studios.
Aerial’s experience reaches beyond animation. Most recently, she was in the props department for the Showtime series Who is America? featuring comedian Sacha Baron Cohen. She was the production manager on AARP’s Life Reimagined project. Prior to that, she was a camera operator for a live concert shoot for the Dry Branch Fire Squad, and also for an educational series entitled “Pop City.”
For four years she coordinated the live TV studio at the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, where she also produced a live weekly webcast called Health Care WebChat, featuring HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, and another monthly webcast called Know What to Do About the Flu hosted by Lark McCarthy. Actress and comedian Fran Drescher appeared as a panelist on one episode of HealthCare WebChat that Aerial produced. Aerial also coordinated dozens of press conferences and satellite media tours during her tenure.
Aerial produced promos at Retirement Living TV, and she was a Segment Associate Producer for RLTV shows Viewpoint and The Daily Apple. She often wrote or produced segments planned by her segment team, under the leadership of her segment producer. One of her segments, “Elder Abuse,” won an Emmy-Award. While producing a segment on late parenthood, she had the opportunity to produce an on-camera hosted interview with actress Sally Kellerman, who played Major “Hot Lips” O’Houlihan in the 1970 Robert Altman film MASH.
She is a graduate of the New York University Tisch School of the Arts and a lover of film, music, art, cuisine, and entertainment. She also loves cooking and maintains her own WordPress food blog, BeetEater.com. Please don’t hesitate to review her video samples or reach out to her through the contact page.