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Big Apple Film Festival

Big Apple Film Festival Distribution Summit

SPEAKERS: SAL SCAMARDO, FILMRISE, VICE PRESIDENT OF DISTRIBUTION AND MARKETING, JOSH NADLER, SONY PICTURES/AFFIRM FILMS, DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT AND ACQUISITIONS and GARY RUBIN (SALES AGENT) Jonathan Lipp (Moderator, Big Apple Film Festival Founder/Director) ​

SAL SCAMARDO is Vice President of Distribution and Marketing at FILMRISE, an industry-leading film and television distribution company and streaming network. FilmRise content can be found in theaters, FilmRise proprietary channels and on many popular streaming platforms including Amazon, Netflix, The Roku Channel, HBO, Pluto, Apple and more. ​FilmRise has raised $112 million in capital to fund its aggressive acquisition strategy and has acquired over 20,000 titles in a wide range of genres — and the company is constantly adding to its extensive roster of releases. ​Its diverse collection of movies includes Oscar® nominee MEMENTO, directed by Christopher Nolan; MONSTER, which won a Best Actress Academy Award® for Charlize Theron; the Oscar®-nominated THE ILLUSIONIST, starring Edward Norton; Best Picture Academy Award® winner SPOTLIGHT; and HBO’s Emmy Award®-winning GOING CLEAR: SCIENTOLOGY AND THE PRISON OF BELIEF. ​

JOSH NADLER is Director of Development and Acquisitions at Sony Pictures Entertainment Affirm Films. He started in TV and Film production, then moved over to creative development. During the past 13 years, Josh helped build Sony's faith based division, Affirm Films. He's worked on over 30 films including Soul Surfer (starring AnnaSophia Robb, Golden Globe nominee Dennis Quaid, Academy Award winner Helen Hunt, Carrie Underwood) Heaven is For Real (starring Academy Award nominee Greg Kinnear, Academy Award nominee Thomas Haden Church), Risen(starring Emmy nominee Joseph Fiennes), and Miracles From Heaven (starring Emmy nominee Jennifer Garner and Queen Latifah). Affirm Films is also distributor on the Academy Award nominated film A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (starring Tom Hanks). ​

GARY RUBIN is a film sales agent, and has over 30 years of experience in the motion picture and television businesses encompassing acquisitions, production, distribution and management responsibilities. In those years he acquired nearly 100 films, and helped create multiple nine figures in domestic sales. ​ Rubin has previously served as Executive Vice President, TV Sales and Acquisitions, for Artisan Entertainment(The Blair Witch Project), executive produced films for the Disney Channel and formed First Independent Pictures, a specialty distribution company, known for distributing films starring various Academy Award and Golden Globe winners and nominees including Working Title’s SIXTY SIX starring Helena Bonham Carter; BIG FAN starring Patton Oswalt and Michael Rapaport; and HOLY ROLLERS starring Jesse Eisenberg.