It’s been 18 months since Gina Duncan became the associate vice president of cinema at Brooklyn’s BAMcinematek. She’s been juggling new industry contacts as she gets the hang of booking first-run and repertory programming for the venue’s four screens, but one issue continues to nag her.
“It’s funny when folks who have never met me email me or call me over the phone,” she said, over coffee recently, “and they tell me what they think Poc audiences want. That’s always a laugh for me.”
As one of the few black women running a major film exhibition house in the U.S., the 37-year-old former programmer at the Jacob Burns Film Center has embraced that side of her story — and at a pivotal moment of cultural transformation across the movie business, uses it to inform many strategic decisions for Bam programming.
“My overall mission is to have a nimble,...
“It’s funny when folks who have never met me email me or call me over the phone,” she said, over coffee recently, “and they tell me what they think Poc audiences want. That’s always a laugh for me.”
As one of the few black women running a major film exhibition house in the U.S., the 37-year-old former programmer at the Jacob Burns Film Center has embraced that side of her story — and at a pivotal moment of cultural transformation across the movie business, uses it to inform many strategic decisions for Bam programming.
“My overall mission is to have a nimble,...
- 6/19/2018
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
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