Tribeca Welcomes: Geoffrey Gilmore

Tribeca Enterprises, the parent company of TribecaFilm.com, announced today that Geoffrey Gilmore will come aboard this spring as Chief Creative Officer. After 19 years at Sundance—where he was most recently the director of the acclaimed Sundance Film Festival—Gilmore is ready to take on Tribeca's global content strategy, lead creative development initiatives, and expand the Tribeca brand. Gilmore will also join the Board of Directors of Tribeca Enterprises.

Tribeca Enterprises founder Jane Rosenthal explains, "As one of the most accomplished creative forces in our industry, Geoff is the ideal person to guide content development for Tribeca Enterprises. His talent and experience will benefit Tribeca immeasurably, particularly in creating new strategic alliances and opportunities, such as our recently announced Tribeca Film Festival Doha. We are delighted that Geoff is moving to New York to join Tribeca at a time of unprecedented change in the world of film and media."

Gilmore adds, "I believe that Tribeca Enterprises is well positioned to develop a film organization that can create a new paradigm for the future. The vision of its leadership, its structure and resources, and the track record of its brief history give me great excitement at the opportunity to join their enterprise. I've had a wonderful nineteen years at Sundance and will always be grateful to Bob Redford.  For me this is a big decision, a huge change and an enormous opportunity."
 
With his extensive and varied resume, Gilmore brings to Tribeca a diversity of knowledge and experience—and a repository of good will and respect from his peers. Since the 1980s, Gilmore has been a central figure in shaping the landscape and platforms that exist today for independent filmmakers and buyers, both in the U.S. and abroad. At the Sundance Film Festival, his duties ranged from film selection to artistic direction to general festival management. His many credits include the Sundance break-outs Reservoir Dogs, Hoop Dreams, Little Miss Sunshine and An Inconvenient Truth—just to name a few. Gilmore is also known for discovering and launching the careers of emerging filmmakers.

Within the larger Sundance umbrella, Gilmore consulted for Robert Redford and the Sundance Channel since its inception in 1996, and helped build both the Sundance Group and the Sundance Film Series. Major events conceived under his direction include the annual Sundance Independent Producers Conference and other initiatives related to independent filmmaking and distribution.

Gilmore has served on numerous international film juries, and is a featured guest lecturer at many film schools and cultural institutions. (He teaches a master class for the Ludwigsburg Film Academy.) He has also written extensively on the American independent film scene. Prior to Sundance, Gilmore served as head of the UCLA Film and Television Archive's Programming Department for 15 years.

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