Dana Harris
Editor in Chief
Dana Harris is the Los Angeles–based Editor-in-Chief and General Manager of IndieWire. She’s covered the film industry for nearly two decades, including 11 years at Variety in roles that included film reporter, creating lifestyle section Variety Weekend, and editor of Variety.com. You can follow her @TheKnife.
James Israel
Publisher
James Israel is the Publisher of IndieWire. He is responsible for all IndieWire revenue, overseeing advertising and sponsorship in addition to leading sales development and business strategies. Under his leadership, IndieWire has seen record revenue growth in the entertainment, consumer, awards, and event space. He began his career at IndieWire in 2001 as Managing Editor for IndieWire’s daily coverage of the Sundance Film Festival. Originally from South Carolina, James is based in Los Angeles.
Anne Thompson
Editor-at-Large
Born and raised in New York, IndieWire Editor-at-Large Anne Thompson has been a contributor to the New York Times, Washington Post, the Observer, and Wired. She has served as film columnist at Variety and deputy editor of Variety.com, where her daily blog, Thompson on Hollywood, launched in March 2007. Anne was the Deputy Film Editor at the Hollywood Reporter, the West Coast Editor of Premiere, a Senior Writer at Entertainment Weekly, and West Coast Editor for Film Comment. She wrote the film-industry column “Risky Business” for L.A. Weekly and the Los Angeles Times syndicate. A graduate of the Department of Cinema Studies at New York University, she has taught film criticism at USC and hosts the fall semester of “Sneak Previews” for UCLA Extension. Follow her @akstanwyck.
Eric Kohn
Executive Editor & Chief Critic
Eric Kohn is the New York–based Executive Editor & Chief Critic at IndieWire, where he has worked since 2007. In addition to overseeing operations for IndieWire’s New York film team, he reviews numerous films throughout the year, oversees festival strategy, and reports on the industry. Kohn travels to film festivals around the globe, interviews filmmakers. and managed IndieWire’s network for professional film critics, the Criticwire Network. He also launched the Critics Academy initiative, a series of educational workshops for aspiring entertainment journalists, and teaches film criticism at NYU. Prior to joining IndieWire, Eric contributed to the New York Times and other outlets. He is the editor of “Harmony Korine: Interviews,” published by the University of Mississippi Press in 2014. He is the 2018 chairman of the New York Film Critics Circle and served as a member of the jury for Critics Week at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. Follow him @erickohn.
Christian Blauvelt
Managing Editor
Christian Blauvelt is the New York-based Managing Editor of IndieWire as of October 2018. In addition to overseeing operations for IndieWire’s New York and Los Angeles-based news team, he’s responsible for editorial standards, strategy, traffic growth, and broader organizational goals. He’s also a regular on-air commentator on CBS New York, has appeared on Turner Classic Movies, and is the author of three books for DK and Lucasfilm Publishing: “Star Wars Made Easy,” “Be More Yoda,” and “Be More Vader.” Before joining IndieWire, he was Deputy Editor at BBC Culture for five years, during which time the site won two Webby Awards and he was named to Cablefax Magazine’s Overachievers Under 30 list. He’s given talks and led panels at South by Southwest and San Diego Comic-Con and is a regular moderator of post-screening Q&As for BAFTA New York and the SAG-AFTRA Foundation. Before BBC Culture, he worked at Entertainment Weekly. Follow him at @Ctblauvelt.
Kate Erbland
Film Editor
Kate Erbland is the New York–based Film Editor of IndieWire, where she writes and edits daily for the site. Kate is a former Associate Editor of Film School Rejects, and her previous work can be found at Vanity Fair, Cosmopolitan, Rolling Stone, the Dissolve, ScreenCrush, New York Daily News, Mental Floss, Bustle, Dame Magazine, Movies.com, Fandango, the Playlist, amNY, Vulture, MTV.com, Details.com, MSN Movies, Boxoffice Magazine, and Film.com. Follow her @katerbland.
David Ehrlich
Senior Film Critic
David is the Senior Film Critic of IndieWire. Previously, he worked as a Staff Writer at Rolling Stone, the Associate Film Editor of Time Out New York, the Editor-at-Large of Little White Lies Magazine, and the Senior Editor of Film.com. As a freelancer writer, he has contributed to Slate, Vanity Fair, the Guardian, the Dissolve, the A.V. Club, and other outlets. He co-hosts the Fighting in the War Room podcast, and his annual video countdowns of the year’s best films have been viewed more than 2 million times. He lives in Brooklyn. Follow @davidehrlich.
Chris O’Falt
Filmmaker Toolkit Editor
Chris is the editor and reporter for IndieWire’s Filmmaker Toolkit. Previously, he covered the indie and doc film beat for The Hollywood Reporter. When he’s not writing about the innovation of today’s leading filmmakers, Chris is helping train the next (and hopefully more diverse) generation of filmmakers through a non-profit he co-founded in NYCHA’s Gowanus Houses. Follow @cofalt.
Libby Hill
TV Awards Editor
Libby Hill is the TV Awards Editor for IndieWire, covering all things Emmys and beyond. Libby served as an entertainment reporter for the Los Angeles Times for nearly four years before joining Indiewire, and her previous work can be found at New York Times, NPR, Vulture, A.V. Club, Salon, and RogerEbert.com. A South Dakota native, Libby spends much of her time not talking about the weather and tripping over her cats. Follow her @midwestspitfire.
Hanh Nguyen
Senior Editor
Hanh was most recently West Coast Executive Editor of TVGuide.com, where she spent more than five years spearheading coverage of events and high-profile shows. Before that, she was an Assistant Editor at Tribune Media Service’s Zap2it.com for eight years, contributing to the television, movie and pop-culture coverage for the website. Hanh has also freelanced for spots including LA Weekly, CNET, Gamespot, Tech Republic, TV.com, and IndieWire. Hanh is well versed in all things food, and is a bonus resource for any and all restaurant tips. Hanh also had a very brief career as a voiceover dubber for anime (in English). Follow her @Hanhonymous.
Liz Shannon Miller
TV Editor
Liz Shannon Miller is the Los Angeles–based TV Editor of IndieWire, and has been talking on the internet about television since the very beginnings of the internet. After studying film at USC, she worked for two years as a staff writer on G4’s Attack of the Show, wrote dialogue for the U.S. Army, covered the online video world as a tech reporter, served as web editor at Variety, and has been published by the New York Times, Comedy Central, the Wrap, Nerve, and Thought Catalog. She is also a produced playwright, a host of podcasts, and a repository of “X-Files” trivia. Follow her @lizlet.
Ben Travers
TV Critic
Ben Travers is the Los Angeles–based TV Critic at IndieWire, where he writes reviews, covers the most prominent festivals, and provides extensive awards analysis related to today’s vital television projects. Prior to joining IndieWire, Ben served as an Assistant Editor of PopMatters for nearly five years, worked as a production assistant for Walt Disney Pictures, and copy-edited various publications. A graduate of the University of Iowa, Ben holds degrees in both journalism and cinema. Follow him @BenTTravers.
Tambay Obenson
Staff Writer
Tambay Obenson is a Los Angeles-based staff writer for IndieWire, where he focuses on African-American film and television. A veteran writer, filmmaker and entrepreneur, he founded the independent distributor Voyager Film Company in 2005, in response to the lack of distribution for indie films by and about people of African descent. Feature films distributed by the company include “Beautiful Things” (2005), which he wrote, directed, and co-starred in, and “The Man Who Couldn’t” (2006). In 2009, he teamed up with a number of black-cinema bloggers to create a single web portal for the cinema of Africa and its diaspora. That site, Shadow and Act, grew rapidly and as the site’s chief editor and writer in 2010 he co-founded the joint venture Shadow and Act Films, a film financing and production initiative. Tambay is also co-founder and co-curator of the renowned New Voices in Black Cinema Festival, which takes place annually at BAMCinematek in Brooklyn, NY. Follow him @TambayObenson.
Michael Nordine
Weekend Editor
Michael Nordine is the Los Angeles–based Weekend Editor of IndieWire. He previously served as Film Copy-Editor of LA Weekly, where he was also a freelance film critic for several years; he has had bylines in the Village Voice, VICE, the Wrap, the Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post as well. Michael received a B.A. in Literature and Philosophy from Bennington College and an M.A. in Film Studies from Chapman University. He is a member of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and can be found on Twitter @slowbeard.
Zack Sharf
Staff Writer
Zack Sharf is the New York–based Staff Writer at IndieWire, where he is responsible for providing editorial support to the site’s team of editors. In this role, Zack contributes to the site’s daily news flow in addition to pitching larger editorial pieces and covering special events. Prior to joining IndieWire, he received his B.A. in Media Studies from Emerson College, where he worked the Boston press circuit for three years as Managing Editor of the school’s film organization, Reel Reactions. Zack has also worked in the web and editorial department of NYC’s leading news station, WABC-TV. He has a sweet spot for “Before Sunset,” black labs, Julianne Moore, and “The Iron Giant.” Follow him @ZSharf.
Jude Dry
Associate Editor
Jude Dry is a New York–based staff writer for IndieWire, where they write daily for the site with a focus on LGBTQ film and television. Jude was a fellow of the 2013 New York Film Festival Critics Academy, when they first began writing for IndieWire. Their previous work can be found at Variety, Splitsider, FilmLinc, and Teachers & Writers Magazine. Jude lives life like Gene Kelly in “Singin’ in the Rain.”
Steve Greene
Associate Editor, TV
Steve Greene is the Los Angeles–based staff writer at IndieWire. In addition to managing the Criticwire Network, Steve has covered film festivals up and down the West Coast, from Vancouver to Palm Springs. He’s also moderated a number of panels and post-screening discussions around his adopted hometown of Los Angeles. When he’s not consuming unhealthy amounts of pop culture, Steve is an occasional performer, baseball-game attendee, and trivia team member. Follow Steve @stevebruin.
Jamie Righetti
Social Media Coordinator
Jamie Righetti is the New York–based Social Media Coordinator at IndieWire, where she manages the site’s social networks. She also contributes occasional editorials, interviews, and reviews. Born and raised in New York City, Jamie is a graduate of Columbia University, and prior to joining IndieWire, she wrote for CNN, Film School Rejects, Slash Film, Bitch Flicks, Daily Grindhouse, and others. She has also worked for BBC Worldwide and Sesame Street. Her first novel, “Beechwood Park,” is currently available on Amazon. Follow her @JamieRighetti.
Bill Desowitz
Crafts Editor
Bill Desowitz, the Crafts Editor at IndieWire, specializes in below-the-line and animation coverage, with an emphasis on Oscar and Emmy Awards season reporting/analysis. He is also responsible for the former Immersed in Movies blog and author of “James Bond Unmasked,” featuring interviews with all six Bond actors. He previously served as editor of Animation World Network and VFXWorld and managing editor of Animation Magazine. Follow @billdesowitz.
Jason Gonzalez
Managing Director, Strategic Partnerships
Jason Gonzalez is the New York–based Managing Director, Strategic Partnerships for IndieWire. He handles ad-sales campaigns and sponsorships ranging from theatrical and DVD releases to awards season and filmmaker-centric initiatives. Prior to joining IndieWire, Jason was at IFC Films, where he served as the Marketing and Publicity Coordinator, working on a diverse slate of theatrical and VOD releases, including Cristian Mungiu’s “4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days,” Gus Van Sant’s “Paranoid Park,” Guy Maddin’s “My Winnipeg,” Madonna’s “Filth and Wisdom,” and Ken Loach’s “The Wind That Shakes the Barley.”
Gillian Garcia
Senior Sales Planner
Gillian Garcia is the New York–based Senior Sales Planner at IndieWire, where she coordinates with clients to arrange all of IndieWire’s ad sales. Gillian recently received her B.A. from Barnard College, where she studied History and Spanish. Gillian has held past internships at the Shark Group, Eleven James, and Latina Magazine. She’s a New Jersey native who loves anything that has to do with Tony Soprano, 20th century Europe, and dogs.
*Portraits for Dana Harris, James Israel, Jason Gonzalez, Anne Thompson, and Ben Travers were taken by photographer Daniel Bergeron.
