Barbara Doyle

Barbara Doyle: Author of Make Your Movie: What You Need to Know About the Business and Politics of Filmmaking, Focal Press

Barbara Freedman Doyle, began her film career as the assistant to the Senior VP of Worldwide Production at Tri-Star Pictures. Five years later, she left the studio to work her way up the free-lance production ladder as a Coordinator and Production Supervisor on projects for CBS, NBC, Disney, TNT, Showtime, Hearst Entertainment, Hallmark, 20th Century Fox, Morgan Creek Productions, and Alcon Entertainment.

Currently Chair of the Film Division of Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, Doyle is the former Associate Dean of Production at the American Film Institute and Chair of Portfolio at the Brooks Institute of Photography.  She continues to consult on production for narrative and documentary film projects.