WATER'S END PRODUCTIONS - Key Persons
Lena started her career as an intern at Columbia Pictures. She continued at Columbia by assisting Senior Vice President of Production Jonathan Kadin, for whom she worked on several films, including Concussion, the 2016 Ghostbusters, and The Shallows. After leaving Columbia, she joined Academy Award-nominated director Nikolaj Arcel as his creative assistant on Arcel's first Hollywood feature, The Dark Tower (Sony). Following that project, she assisted Academy Award-winning director Susanne Bier on the post-apocalyptic thriller Birdbox (Netflix). Lena was an associate producer on the Water's End film The Artist's Wife (Strand Releasing), working extensively on its post-production coordination and marketing roll-out. Born and raised in Connecticut, Lena is a graduate of Franklin & Marshall College in Pennsylvania.
Job Titles:
- Head of Production
- Head of Production for Water 's End Productions
Susanne Filkins is the Head of Production for Water's End Productions. She is the Producer of the recently released The Artist's Wife, starring Lena Olin and Bruce Dern. Filkins was also an Executive Producer for the Julia Ormond thriller Reunion, the Tribeca sensation Little Woods, directed by Nia DaCosta (Candyman), as well as past releases It Happened in L.A., The Price, and The House of Tomorrow. Additional credits include Co-Executive Producer for the documentary Scotty: The Secret History of Hollywood, and Susanne was an Associate Producer on the Oscar-winning Luca Guadagnino film, Call Me By Your Name. She got her start in the entertainment business as an A&R Production Manager at Geffen Records in Los Angeles, where she helped produce and manage multi-platinum recording artists. She lives in Los Angeles with her daughter.
Tom is a filmmaker and the founder of Water's End Productions. He wrote and directed the feature films Last Weekend (IFC/Sundance Selects, 2014), starring Patricia Clarkson, and The Artist's Wife (Strand Releasing, 2020), starring Lena Olin and Bruce Dern. Tom and Water's End were the first outside investors, four years before the film was released, in the Academy Award®-winning Call Me By Your Name, on which Tom served as an Executive Producer. He is the author of four novels, including the San Francisco Chronicle bestseller The Trouble Boy, about a young screenwriter. His writing has also appeared in The New York Times, The Village Voice, and the San Francisco Chronicle. As a stand-up comedian, Tom has performed at venues including the Hollywood Improv and Jimmy Kimmel's Comedy Club in Las Vegas. A passionate advocate for the preservation of film history, Tom is a member of the board of trustees of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. Born in London and raised in San Francisco, he is a graduate of Yale University, where he earned his B.A. in the history of art with a focus on 20th-century photography. Tom lives in Los Angeles with his partner, Spencer Alcorn, their two daughters, and too many dogs.