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Veteran PR executive Vicky Eguia, who worked on several award winning movie campaigns such as Pan’s Labyrinth, La Vie en Rose and Amazon Studios’ historic Oscar winning Manchester by the Sea and The Salesman, has died after a long battle with cancer. She was 48.
Her family revealed the news in a Facebook post early Saturday.
For any reporter, publicist or filmmaker who worked with Vicky, they’ll remember her for her jubilant, graceful, patient and can-do spirit. As a journalist, whether you were working with Vicky on a breaking news story, or trying to land an interview with major talent during awards season (i.e. breakfast with Nic Winding Refn) or tickets to a big Cannes film premiere, she always delivered. There wasn’t an ask that was impossible.
For the last seven years, Vicky worked at Amazon Studios, her most recent position being Director of PR, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion and Community Relations. She joined Amazon Studios as the Head of Publicity for Amazon Original Movies in 2015. She was an integral part of the team that made history for Amazon Studios as the first-ever streamer to be nominated for a Best Picture and to win three Academy Awards for 2016’s Manchester By The Sea (Best Original Screenplay & Best Actor) & The Salesman (Best Foreign Language Film).
During her tenure, she oversaw the publicity campaigns for everything on the studio’s slate, including audience and award favorites The Big Sick, Cold War, The Sound Of Metal, Borat Subsequent Movie Film, One Night in Miami, Coming 2 America and many more.
Throughout her career Vicky had a long-running collaboration with studio executive and indie distribution guru Bob Berney and his wife, marketing and PR executive Jeanne Berney. It was Jeanne who gave
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After 15 years in PR and publicity work at studios such as Millennium Entertainment and Newmarket Films, where she worked on the publicity campaign for “The Passion of the Christ” in 2004, Eguia joined Amazon Studios in 2015 and played a key role in its efforts to expand into theatrical distribution. In 2017, Eguia oversaw the awards campaign for Kenneth Lonergan’s “Manchester By The Sea,” a film which became the first from a streaming studio to get nominated for the Best Picture Oscar.
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Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaVicky Eguia, a public relations executive at Amazon who helped create Oscar-winning campaigns for “Manchester By the Sea” and “The Salesman,” died Saturday at the age of 48. The cause was cancer, her family said on social media.Eguia most recently served as director of PR, diversity, equity and inclusion and community relations at Amazon.
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