AFM: IFTA Board Additions – Selection

Brian Beckmann of Arclight Movies, Caroline Couret-Delegue of Movie Seekers, Diane Ferrandez (AGC Studios), Jeffrey Greenstein (Millennium Media), George Hamilton (Protagonist Photos), Jasmin McSweeney (NZ Movie Fee) and Lise Romanoff of Imaginative and prescient Movies have been newly elected to the board of the Unbiased Movie & Tv Alliance.

The group represents the impartial sector earlier than governments and worldwide our bodies and likewise offers leisure business providers to impartial firms. It’s also the producer of the American Movie Market.

The AFM, which is underway in Santa Monica, California, and runs to Sunday 6 Nov., 2022, is without doubt one of the movie business’s key rights gross sales markets of the yr. The market additionally represents the most important annual fund-raising occasion for IFTA. This yr’s market is its forty third iteration.

The newcomers be part of Clay Epstein of Movie Mode Leisure, who’s at the moment serving the second yr of his two-year time period as chairperson, J.D Beaufils (VMI Worldwide), David Fannon (Display screen Media), Jason Buckley (Lakeshore Leisure), Lisa Gutberlet (Blue Fox Leisure), Nat McCormick (The Change), Michael Ryan (GFM Animation), and Rob Williams (Participant Media).

“We’re as soon as once more honored to have so many uniquely proficient members on our board, who every symbolize numerous positions, product, enterprise fashions, and views throughout the business,” mentioned Epstein in ready remarks. “Collectively they may play a pivotal function in our year-round efforts to serve and symbolize the Independents of our business worldwide.”

“AFM 2022 is very important as a result of it’s the independents’ market – based by Independents, targeted on their enterprise, and working with out authorities assist,” IFTA mentioned.