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In a major shift one of the nation’s premier arthouses, Karen Cooper will be exiting as director on June 30 after 50 years running the Film Forum in New York City. Deputy Director Sonya Chung will assume the role.
Cooper has led the nonprofit cinema since its first iteration in 1972 as a 50-seat loft space on the Upper West Side open only weekends, to a multi-million dollar operation with four screens and 500 seats in lower Manhattan. She’ll remain an advisor to Chung with a focus on programming premieres and fundraising
“To say this is a transitional moment would be a vast understatement – for virtually all of its history, Film Forum has been energetically and most ably guided by Karen, not least during the very challenging pandemic period from which we are emerging. My board colleagues and I are extremely grateful for her tenure, and excited that in Sonya we have secured a very talented successor with her own long and productive history with the organization,” said Gray Coleman, chair of the Film Forum board.
The Film Forum was created in 1970 with a $19,000 annual budget to show American independent films not playing in commercial cinemas. Cooper led it through three expansions building it to a $6 million business and a range of programming and premieres from around the world. It is also one of the nation’s leading showcases for restored films. Bruce Goldstein, Repertory Artistic Director, created a repertory program in 1986.
Cooper had programmed the cinema’s premieres solo since 1972, and with Artistic Director Mike Maggiore since 1996.
Chung has a 20-year history with Film Forum, having been director of development for five years beginning in 2003. She left film exhibition to write and publish two novels: Long
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