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10.01.2023 - 17:35 / deadline.com
Karen Cooper, longtime director of New York City’s indie cinema gem Film Forum, says she’s stepping down at a good time, not just for her, but for the business. Despite all the naysayers and after slogging through Covid with the help of federal grants and weathering a slow recovery, Cooper said business is currently pretty lively at the lower Manhattan nonprofit cinema she’s run for the past 50 years.
She’s leaving her position this summer with Deputy Director Sonya Chung taking the reins July 1.
The Film Forum launched in 1970 on the Upper West Side with a $19,000 annual budget to show American independent films not playing in commercial cinemas. Cooper led it through three expansions, building it into a $6 million business with a range of programming and premieres from around the world. It’s been at its current location on West Houston Street since 1989. She counts New York openings of hundreds of indie narrative films, documentaries and animated features over the decades – many by debut directors – as her greatest accomplishment. Filmmakers she’s supported range from New German Cinema to Terence Davies, Mira Nair and Agnès Varda to Wong Kar-wai and Chloé Zhao.
Cooper will continue to advise on fundraising and programming. She’ll be at the Berlin International Film Festival in February. Meanwhile, she fielded a few questions from Deadline about the organization that been her life’s work, and the state of independent film market.
DEADLINE: There’s so much doom and gloom around the future of arthouse film. So, how’s business?
COOOPER: Financially we are pretty solid. The losses during Covid were tremendous but we did get federal support and support from individuals and foundations that were helpful to us.
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