John Vanco, former SVP and GM of the NYC Arthouse IFC Center, has joined Netflix as a film programmer for the streamer’s theaters.
“I am thrilled to share the news that after 18 years of showing the world’s best films at the IFC Center at 10 Egyptian and the Bay in Los Angeles,” Vanco tweeted.
Vanco started in 2005 at the New York art house institution IFC Center. Before that he worked at Freedonia Pictures, Cowboy Picture, Miramax and New Yorker Films.
Netflix entered the theater space in 2019 when it acquired a lease on the Paris Theater in NYC. It acquired the historic Egyptian Theater in 2020 and began a major renovation of the movie palace opened in 1922 by Sid Grauman on Hollywood Boulevard. It will reopen this year. In 2021, Netflix took over the lease of the Bay Theater in Pacific Palisades, which was closed during Covid and reopened by the streamer in November of that year. It uses the theaters to show its own fare and host special events, as well as classic film programs and retrospectives.
David Schwartz will stay until April to oversee the Netflix series Venice Film Festival Presents: Next Generation, announced earlier this week. Schwartz joined Netflix from the Museum of the Moving Image in 2019 as Manager of Theater Programming and Paris Theater Oversight.
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