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we both worked at HSI Productions. It was the Death Star of production companies, the alpha omega...That's where I learned how to multitask, how to hustle, but most importantly how to run a premium production company on that level. If you think about all of the alumni that came out of HSI - Paul
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Jennifer Emhoff was born in Minnesota, the daughter of Kathleen "Katie" (née Davies) and James Mackin. She has two brothers, Seth Mackin and Kyle Mackin. Her parents divorced in 1982, and her father later remarried. After film school at
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company where we definitely spent a lot of time crossing over from music videos to commercials or commercials to movies, or print photography to commercials,' Emhoff says. 'It's exciting to start from scratch...'
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