Join the Gotham for the inaugural panel and industry access series, INDUSTRY INDSIDERS!

Overview

Feeling like the film and media industry can be an enigma? Wondering how to learn more about areas related to distribution strategy, development, production, and marketing? Join The Gotham for the inaugural panel and industry access series, INDUSTRY INSIDERS.

Join us on Thursday, January 27 for INDUSTRY INSIDERS: DISTRIBUTION STRATEGISTS as we speak with industry insiders who will give direct tools and tips on how to navigate the current distribution landscape. You’ll have a chance to hear their perspective on how to get your projects seen by audiences. Panelists for our first-ever INDUSTRY INSIDERS event are:

• Alece Oxendine, Director of Industry and Festival Outreach at Columbia University’s Film Program

• Caryn Coleman, Founder of The Future of Film is Female

• Michael Tuckman, former Vice President of Theatrical Sales for THINKFilm and faculty at the Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema at Brooklyn College

Industry Insiders

The Gotham's INDUSTRY INSIDERS event series offers members of The Gotham community exclusive insight into hot-button industry topics, including distribution, development, streaming, diversity and inclusion initiatives, and more, from working, industry professionals and experts. Attendees hear first-hand about the issues that concern them the most and often have the chance to meet and network with guests.

Panelists

Caryn Coleman

The Future of Film Is Female - Film Programmer & Founder

Caryn Coleman is a New York-based film programmer whose work is focused on gender parity in independent film. She's the founder of The Future of Film is Female - an organization that amplifies the work of all women filmmakers through a short film fund, commitment to exhibition, and community building programs - that is also an ongoing screening series at the Museum of Modern Art. She's a longtime programmer at Nitehawk Cinema, having been the Director of Programming/Special Projects, and is the Director of the annual Nitehawk Shorts Festival. Coleman received the 2012 Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Art Writers Initiative grant and has organized panels for the Art House Convergence, Nightstream, Athena Film Festival, Connective Conversations for the Ford Foundation, and CAA. She is a short film advocate, a horror film lover, and Delphine Seyrig superfan.

Alece Oxendine

Columbia University Film Program - Director of Industry and Festival Outreach

Alece Oxendine has dedicated her career to helping emerging independent filmmakers through her work in marketing, social media, partnerships, distribution, and strategy at Film at Lincoln Center, BAMcinématek, Rooftop Films, Athena Film Festival, Fandor, GoDigital, Inc., and Good Deed Entertainment. Her focus is educating filmmakers about digital distribution practices and navigating a difficult, yet rewarding film industry. She currently works in this capacity as the Director of Industry and Festival Outreach at Columbia University’s Film Program, where she is an esteemed alumna and serves on the Board of Directors for the Columbia Alumni Association. She is also a proud HBCU graduate of Winston-Salem State University and is committed to serving the Black community through her board position at the Black Film Space. Alece is originally from Durham, NC and has lived in Los Angeles and San Francisco, and is glad to call New York City home again.

Michael Tuckman

mTuckman Media - Owner

Michael Tuckman served as Vice President of Theatrical Sales for THINKFilm, handling Oscar winners and box office smashes including THE ARISTOCRATS, BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU'RE DEAD, BORN INTO BROTHELS and TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE. mTuckman media works directly with filmmakers and niche distributors as a theatrical booker. Releases include Rory Kennedy's Academy Award nominated LAST DAYS IN VIETNAM and the Oscar-shortlisted documentaries EX LIBRIS: THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY, DARK MONEY, UNREST, WE COME AS FRIENDS and COMMAND AND CONTROL. Other releases include Frederick Wiseman's last seven films and the Gotham Awards and Cinema Eye Honors nominees DETROPIA and BISBEE ‘17. Tuckman is a member of the faculty at the Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema at Brooklyn College, where he teaches a course on distribution and exhibition.