Name: Jeanne C. Ishikawa
Age: 37
Position: Executive producer, Pacific Focus Inc.
First job: Bank janitor in Wahiawa
Favorite pastimes: Volleyball, tennis
Pacific Focus Inc., a Kakaako-based film and video production company, has hired Jeanne Ishikawa as its executive producer. Seeing the whole picture
at Pacific FocusFor the past seven years, she has freelanced and been Hawaii production coordinator for Walt Disney Co. movies such as "George of the Jungle," "Krippendorf's Tribe," "Meet the Deedles" and "Mighty Joe Young."
"Working at Pacific Focus will give me a greater insight of the whole picture, not just the production portion but from concept to the finished piece," Ishikawa said.
The Pacific Focus' client list includes airlines, banks, hotels, land developers, visitor bureaus and medical organizations.
Ishikawa has worked as a Hawaii State Judiciary writer, a television producer and assignment editor, and a radio reporter and news producer. She is a Leilehua High graduate and earned a bachelor's in broadcast journalism from Boston University.
By Jerry Tune, Star-Bulletin