On its heels was the announcement that the same streamer laid off veteran documentary and indie executives Lisa Nishimura and Ian Bricke. Within 48 hours, news broke of senior independent film executives leaving jobs they held for years, in some cases not of their own volition.įirst came John Vanco, the 18-year veteran of the IFC Center, heading to Netflix to take over the booking of New York’s Paris Theater, as well as the Bay Cinema and the Egyptian in L.A. In that respect, this week was extraordinary. Their ubiquity makes it possible to visualize this pocket of the entertainment industry so when the faces change places, it stands out. Programmers, distributors, and sales agents may not walk the red carpet alongside their stars, but they’re at all the afterparties, in the trenches of every major film festival, constantly plotting ways to get new work seen. When you cover the arthouse business, you get used to familiar faces more than famous ones.
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