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EXCLUSIVE: Kristen Konvitz has joined UTA as an Agent within the Unbiased Movie Staff department. She’s going to paintings from the company’s Los Angeles headquarters, reporting to Companions Jim Meenaghan and Rena Ronson, who function Co-Heads of the Unbiased Movie Staff.
Konvitz involves UTA from ICM, the place she labored as an Agent within the Unbiased Movie Staff. She spent over 5 years on the company previous to its acquisition through CAA, there operating to construction and prepare financing, compile and protected distribution for impartial motion pictures.
Konvitz has brokered distribution offers on dozens of flicks popping out of such primary gala’s as Cannes, Sundance, TIFF and SXSW, amongst others. Her fresh tasks come with Agnieszka Smoczynska’s Cannes Un Sure Regard access The Silent Twins, SXSW Target audience Award winner Beautiful Issues, Sundance Highest Director winner Palm Bushes and Energy Strains, and Spike Lee’s American Utopia. Moreover, she has negotiated offers for a number of Duplass Brothers productions together with Spin Me Spherical, SXSW Target audience Award winner Language Classes and 7 Days, which received the 2022 Unbiased Spirit Award for Highest First Characteristic.
Previous to her time at ICM, Konvitz served as Head of Manufacturing at movie fund and manufacturing corporate Keep Gold Options. Sooner than Keep Gold, she was once Director of Movie for crowdfunding platform Indiegogo, the place she was once instrumental in organising the corporate as a revered participant within the movie and inventive area. Previous to becoming a member of Indiegogo, she spent six years in acquisitions and manufacturing on the impartial movie gross sales, financing & distribution corporate Wild Bunch, the place she labored on motion pictures corresponding to Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler, James Grey’s Two Fans and Leslye Headland’s Bachelorette. Konvitz started her occupation operating in acquisitions at The Weinstein Corporate.
UTA’s Unbiased Movie Staff makes a speciality of content material financing and distribution for impartial and co-financed movement photos. The department has helped construction the financing and gross sales for famend options like Promising Younger Girl, The Mauritanian, The Father, Hidden Figures, Room, Woman Hen, The Large In poor health, Name Me through Your Identify, I, Tonya, and Cannes Grand Prix winner A Hero, amongst many others. Former documentary gross sales titles come with such hit options as Icarus, The Social Predicament, The Greatest Little Farm, All In: The Struggle for Democracy and At the File, to call a couple of.
