Get an inside look at how lighting teams and rental houses can work together to bring productions to life. This session will explore the tools crews rely on to execute their creative vision and how the specific relationship between crew and rental house can be leveraged to keep a budget in line and the vision intact.

Speaker Bio: Lawson Sitterding is the Director of Lighting Operations at Cinespace Studios in Wilmington, NC, where she leads warehouse operations, client experience, and equipment deployment across multiple studio locations. Lawson works closely with production teams and partners to ensure smooth operations and creative flexibility. Lawson earned her Bachelor of Arts in Film Studies from the University of North Carolina Wilmington in 2013 and began her career over a decade ago as an intern in the same department she now runs — then as EUE/Screen Gems, now as Cinespace Studios