Northwestern Events Calendar

May
4
2017

MSLCE Speaker Event with Andy Bohn, The Film Arcade

When: Thursday, May 4, 2017
5:15 PM - 6:15 PM CT

Where: Frances Searle Building, 1-441, 2240 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208 map it

Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students

Cost: Free!

Contact: Kathryn Lawson   (847) 491-7035

Group: Master of Science in Leadership for Creative Enterprises

Category: Lectures & Meetings

Description:

Join us for a speaker event with Andy Bohn, co-founder and partner at The Film Arcade, an independent film distribution company. Recent releases include Don’t Think Twice, Goat, James White, People Places Things, Song One, A.C.O.D., and Afternoon Delight. Bohn is an executive producer on Mike Birbiglia’s Don’t Think Twice starring Keegan-Michael Key and Gillian Jacobs and on the upcoming What’s The Point starring Lake Bell, Ed Helms and Amber Heard.

Bohn previously founded Might Entertainment, a digital distribution company that released 37 films including The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trilogy through an output deal with Lionsgate. Might was acquired by GoDigital in 2012.

Prior to Might, Bohn co-founded Fluent Entertainment, a production company focused on local-language films with a worldwide distribution deal at Sony. Bohn was previously a development executive at Morgan Creek and MGM’s Trilogy Entertainment and also worked in the motion picture department at ICM. Before entering the entertainment industry, Bohn was an analyst at Deloitte Consulting focused on the globalization strategies of media conglomerates.

Bohn is a member of Film Independent’s Arts Circle and the Milken Institute’s Young Leaders Circle as well as a founding Board Member of Northwestern University’s Leadership Council of Southern California. Bohn graduated from Northwestern with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics.

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