#3 Animation Veteran Esther Pearl on Disrupting the Entertainment Industry One Reel Girl at a Time

Esther Pearl, Founder and Executive Director of Camp Reel Stories CampReelStories.com Esther Pearl is the founder and Executive Director of Camp Reel Stories. She received her Bachelor’s in Visual Arts from U.C.S.D and her M.B.A. in Sustainable Management from The Presidio Graduate School. She has spent 15 years working in Production Management in the Entertainment Industry. The majority of her career was spent at Pixar Animation Studios where her feature film credits include Academy Award winning films The Incredibles and Wall-e, as well as Monsters, Inc. Her other credits include; Titanic, Starship Troopers, Armageddon and What Dreams May Come. She was also a founding board member and the former President of the Board of Bay Area Girls Rock Camp (BAGRC). Esther believes in the power of great storytelling to create social change. Esther lives in Oakland with her husband and two children. During our chat, we discussed a number of fantastic topics...included among those are: - Esther-osophy - What a story manager does - What separates a good story from a great story - The state of the entertainment industry today - How women can break into entertainment and what Esther is doing - Camp Reel Stories and how it's impacting girls of all background to be tomorrow's storytellers We give shout outs to: RISD (Rhode Island School of Design) Camp Reel Stories Women in Animation