Team
Dana Harris-Bridson
Editor in Chief & Senior Vice President
Dana Harris-Bridson is a veteran journalist who has covered the entertainment industry for more than 25 years. She joined IndieWire as its editor in chief in 2012, and has overseen its growth from an indie film site to one that covers film and TV in all forms, and platforms, with a strong focus on issues relating to diversity and inclusion. You can follow her @TheKnife.
James Israel
Publisher & Senior Vice President
James Israel is the Publisher of IndieWire. He is responsible for all IndieWire revenue, overseeing advertising and sponsorship in addition to leading sales development and business strategies. Under his leadership, IndieWire has seen record revenue growth in the entertainment, consumer, awards, and event space. He began his career at IndieWire in 2001 as Managing Editor for IndieWire’s daily coverage of the Sundance Film Festival. Originally from South Carolina, James is based in Los Angeles.
Jason Gonzalez
Associate Publisher & Vice President
Jason Gonzalez is the Associate Publisher & Vice President of IndieWire. Since joining IndieWire in 2010, Gonzalez has spreadheaded growth across IndieWire’s revenue verticals. In 2022, he co-launched and led strategy on the Special Projects vertical, which produced highly polished video essays, profiles, and more under franchises like Influencers, Craft Considerations, and Deep Dive, that served both editorial and sponsored needs. Gonzalez now oversees both sponsored and branded content across IndieWire as well as continuing to sure up digital and live media. Prior to joining IndieWire, Jason got his start at IFC Films in Marketing and Publicity, working on a diverse slate of theatrical and VOD releases from the likes of Josh and Benny Safdie, Steve McQueen, Greta Gerwig, Cristian Mungiu, Catherine Breillat, Claude Chabrol, and more.
Anne Thompson
Editor-at-Large
Born and raised in New York, IndieWire Editor-at-Large Anne Thompson has been a contributor to the New York Times, Washington Post, the Observer, and Wired. She has served as film columnist at Variety and deputy editor of Variety.com, where her daily blog, Thompson on Hollywood, launched in March 2007. Anne was the Deputy Film Editor at the Hollywood Reporter, the West Coast Editor of Premiere, a Senior Writer at Entertainment Weekly, and West Coast Editor for Film Comment. She wrote the film-industry column “Risky Business” for L.A. Weekly and the Los Angeles Times syndicate. A graduate of the Department of Cinema Studies at New York University, she has taught film criticism at USC and hosts the fall semester of “Sneak Previews” for UCLA Extension. In 2014, HarperCollins published her book, “The $11 Billion Year: From Sundance to the Oscars, an Inside Look at the Changing Hollywood System.” Follow her @akstanwyck.
Kate Erbland
Editorial Director
Kate Erbland is the New York–based Editorial Director at IndieWire, where she writes and edits daily for the site. Responsible for managing all of IndieWire’s features teams (including film, TV, crafts, and awards) and leading the rollout of the site’s original stories, her own work places a special emphasis on female filmmakers, in-depth interviews, and awards season coverage. She has worked at IndieWire since 2015. Her previous work can be found at Vanity Fair, Cosmopolitan, Rolling Stone, The Dissolve, Vulture, New York Daily News, Mental Floss, amNY, MTV.com, Details.com, Film School Rejects, MSN Movies, Boxoffice Magazine, and Film.com. She has served on juries and nominating committees for the Gothams, the Critics Choice Awards, the Cinema Eye Honors, DOC NYC, the Sarasota Film Festival, the Nantucket Film Festival, Palm Springs ShortFest, among others. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English and Art History from Loyola Marymount University. She is a member of the NYFCC and the BFCA. Follow her @katerbland.
Christian Blauvelt
Digital Director
Christian Blauvelt is the Digital Director of IndieWire. In addition to managing IndieWire’s social and curation teams, he’s responsible for facilitating editorial-sales collaborations, analytics-based strategy, and broader organizational goals that reflect the overall site health. Blauvelt is a frequent presence on TV and is the author of the book “Cinematic Cities: The Big Apple on the Big Screen” about New York City’s history in movies for Hachette’s Running Press imprint and TCM, as well as “Hollywood Victory,” about the American film industry’s role in World War II. In 2021 he won a Southern California Journalism Award from the LA Press Club, and a National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Award in 2023. Before joining IndieWire, he was Deputy Editor at BBC Culture. He’s given talks and led panels at South by Southwest and San Diego Comic-Con and has been a regular moderator of post-screening Q&As for BAFTA and SAG-AFTRA. Follow him at @Ctblauvelt.
Erin Strecker
Executive Editor, TV
Erin Strecker is the Executive Editor, TV, at IndieWire where she leads all television coverage. Prior to joining IndieWire, she was the Entertainment Editor at Mashable for several years, covering all things television, film, books, and more. She was also previously a writer for Billboard and Entertainment Weekly. When she’s not binge-watching television shows, you’ll find her excitedly telling you all about new Broadway musicals as a member of the Outer Critics Circle. Follow her @ErinStrecker.
Tony Maglio
Executive Editor, News
Tony Maglio is the Executive Editor, News, at IndieWire. Previously, he worked his way up from intern to TV Editor at Hollywood trade publication TheWrap. Tony holds master’s degrees in both journalism (The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism) and business (Monmouth University). Prior to embarking on a reporting career, Tony was an accounting and finance professional. Follow him @tonymaglio.
Ryan Lattanzio
Deputy Editor, Film
Ryan Lattanzio is the Deputy Editor, Film, for IndieWire, where he oversees all film features and festival coverage. He has written about film for more than 15 years, having previously served as IndieWire’s Deputy Managing Editor (2021-2024) and Weekend Editor (2019-2021), and, before that, Staff Writer/Editor for the IW blog Thompson on Hollywood, covering festivals including Cannes, Toronto, and Sundance. He also served four years as Editor of Communications at the American Film Institute, supervising AFI’s editorial production and authoring donorship-oriented books on Diane Keaton, George Clooney, and John Williams. Previously, he wrote for Bay Area newspapers, including the San Francisco Chronicle and SF Bay Guardian, and was The Daily Californian’s Film Critic. He holds a BA in English Literature. Follow him @ryanlattanzio.
Mark Peikert
Deputy Editor, Crafts & Special Projects
Mark Peikert is the Deputy Editor, Crafts and Special Projects for IndieWire and is a senior-level content creator and editor with over 15 years of editorial leadership experience in film, television, and theater coverage. Over the course of his career in journalism, Mark has served as editor-in-chief of Playbill, Backstage, and New York Press. As a freelancer, he has contributed to Rolling Stone, Elle, Town & Country, and more. His first novel, “Jagged Sophistication,” is available on Amazon. A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College (where he majored in film history and did not join a cult), Mark lives in Los Angeles.
Chris O’Falt
VP, Features Strategy
Chris O’Falt contributes to the site’s craft and special projects teams, and hosts the Filmmaker Toolkit podcast. Previously, he covered the indie and doc film beat for The Hollywood Reporter. When he’s not writing about the innovation of today’s leading filmmakers, Chris is helping train the next (and hopefully more diverse) generation of filmmakers through a non-profit he co-founded in NYCHA’s Gowanus Houses. Follow @cofalt.
David Ehrlich
Reviews Editor and Chief Film Critic
David Ehrlich is the Reviews Editor and Chief Film Critic of IndieWire, where he oversees all of the site’s film reviews coverage. Previously, he worked as a Staff Writer at Rolling Stone, the Associate Film Editor of Time Out New York, the Editor-at-Large of Little White Lies Magazine, and the Senior Editor of Film.com. As a freelancer writer, he has contributed to Slate, Vanity Fair, the Guardian, the Dissolve, the A.V. Club, and other outlets. He co-hosts the Fighting in the War Room podcast, and his annual video countdowns of the year’s best films have been viewed more than 2 million times. He lives in Brooklyn. Follow @davidehrlich.
Marcus Jones
Awards Editor, TV & Film
Marcus Jones is the Awards Editor, TV & Film, at IndieWire. A Maryland native, Marcus started his writing career at New York Magazine, primarily working on projects for Vulture and The Cut. He has also held positions at BuzzFeed News and Entertainment Weekly, where he wrote cover stories, moderated panels, produced video content, and appeared on various podcasts. When he is not catching up on as many Emmy and Oscar contenders as possible, he is likely crafting the perfect lunch order. Follow Marcus @marcus_jones.
Ben Travers
TV Critic
Ben Travers is the TV Critic at IndieWire, where he writes reviews, covers the most prominent festivals, and provides extensive awards analysis related to today’s vital television projects. Prior to joining IndieWire, Ben served as an Assistant Editor of PopMatters for nearly five years, worked as a production assistant for Walt Disney Pictures, and copy-edited various publications. A graduate of the University of Iowa, Ben holds degrees in both journalism and cinema. Follow him @BenTTravers.
Proma Khosla
Senior TV Writer
Proma Khosla is IndieWire’s Senior TV Writer and is based in New York City. Her work has appeared in Mashable, Decider, Vanity Fair, Teen Vogue, Glamour, and Brown Girl Magazine. She is part of the production team behind Lion Party Films, which creates stories by and for the South Asian diaspora. You can catch her name in the credits of “It Follows” if you wait a really long time. Her Twitter handle is @promawhatup, if Twitter still exists.
Christian Zilko
Staff Editor
Christian Zilko is IndieWire’s Los Angeles-based Staff Editor. A lifelong cinephile and sitcom junkie, he began his career as an editorial intern at IndieWire. He went on to work for JamBase, and held various positions in the music industry before returning to his roots in film. He holds a BFA from Emerson College. Follow him @TangledUpInNews
Jim Hemphill
Features Writer, Crafts & Special Projects
Jim Hemphill is a craft reporter for IndieWire based in Los Angeles. His writing on film and television has appeared in Film Comment, American Cinematographer, Variety, Filmmaker Magazine, Film Quarterly, and many other outlets. An award-winning writer-director, his films have screened at festivals and art houses around the world, including the Sundance Film Festival, American Cinematheque, and Facets Multimedia. He has recorded over a dozen historical audio commentaries for Blu-ray and DVD releases of classic films, and regularly moderates live events at Quentin Tarantino’s New Beverly Cinema and the Egyptian and Aero Theatres in Los Angeles.
Sarah Shachat
Writer, Crafts & Special Projects
Sarah Shachat is a writer from New Orleans, now living in New York City. She is an Associate Editor of the Craft department, where she looks at the artistic choices behind building great television series and films. She also helps produce the Filmmaker Toolkit podcast and other special projects.
Samantha Bergeson
Senior News Editor
Samantha is the Senior News Editor at IndieWire. She previously worked as a TV writer for E! Online, and freelanced for Cosmopolitan, POPSUGAR, TV Insider, and The Dipp. A Bay Area native and graduate of New York University, Sam holds degrees in both journalism and cinema studies. Follow her @sambergrig.
Alison Foreman
Features Writer
Alison Foreman is a Features Writer for IndieWire. The D.C. native cut her teeth as a freelance political reporter at CNN: fact-checking the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election for live broadcast. She worked in New York City as a production assistant before joining Mashable as an entertainment journalist and film, TV, and games critic in 2018. Her reporting on the Black Lives Matter reassessment of police procedurals won Best Online TV Feature at the 2020 National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards, presented by the Los Angeles Press Club. She was nominated twice more in 2021. In 2022, Alison was briefly staffed as an Associate Editor at The A.V. Club, before joining IndieWire as its West Coast News and Curation Editor. She is a proud member of GALECA: The Society for LGBTQ Entertainment Critics, as well as the Writers Guild of America, East. Follow her @alfaforeman.
Wilson Chapman
Curation Editor
Wilson Chapman is Curation Editor for IndieWire, where he leads the site’s evergreen-content team. Wilson coordinates IndieWire’s best-of lists, explainers, guides, and more. He also helps with breaking news coverage for the site and contributes film reviews and analysis pieces. Prior to joining IndieWire full time in 2023, Wilson interned at Variety in 2022, where he worked as a news writer and later as part of the publication’s film team. He received his bachelor’s degree in journalism and political science from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, graduating in 2020.
Brian Welk
Senior Reporter, Business
Brian Welk is the Senior Reporter for IndieWire’s business team, covering entertainment industry news and analysis along with festival and awards coverage, primarily focused on the movies. Prior to joining IndieWire, Welk spent six years at the Hollywood trade publication TheWrap, eventually working his way up to the role of Senior Film Reporter. In that time, he’s attended and covered the Oscars, Sundance, TIFF, SXSW, the Golden Globes and more. He’s also served as a moderator for industry panel discussions at SXSW and elsewhere and appeared as an expert on “Good Morning America,” BBC News, and for other outlets.
Harrison Richlin
Weekend Editor
Harrison Richlin is IndieWire’s Weekend Editor based in Los Angeles. Beginning his career as a screenwriter, he’s worked on projects for 20th Century Fox TV, HBOMax, Netflix, Universal Content Productions, and Universal Films. His pivot into journalism comes as a result of his undying love for all things television, film, and theatrical and his interest in being a part of documenting its past, present, and future. Follow him @harri_rich.
Tom Brueggemann
Box Office Editor
Tom Brueggemann comes to box office analysis after a multi-decade career as a film buyer based in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles. The range of theaters for which he bought film includes major chains, leading specialized theaters, drive-ins. This followed running a leading film group at Northwestern University, from which he graduated with a B.A. in political science before graduate school there in film studies. In addition he has worked with film festivals, including for many years screening for Sundance and also head of programming for the Carmel International Film Festival. He currently lives with his pet family in Palm Springs, California, and can be reached @tombrueggemann.
Bill Desowitz
Awards Editor, Craft & Animation
Bill Desowitz, the Awards Editor, Crafts & Animation at IndieWire, specializes in below-the-line coverage, with an emphasis on Oscar and Emmy Awards season reporting/analysis. He is also responsible for the former Immersed in Movies blog and author of “James Bond Unmasked,” featuring interviews with all six Bond actors. He previously served as editor of Animation World Network and VFXWorld and managing editor of Animation Magazine. Follow @billdesowitz.
Azwan Badruzaman
Video Producer/Editor
Azwan Badruzaman is a Los Angeles filmmaker/musician. Originally from Amherst MA, Azwan got his start at an early age at the local public access station, Amherst Media. A prolific creator, he has produced sketches, short films, and music videos, working with various companies such as Creative Suspect, Silver Sail Entertainment and the NBCU digital team. In his free time, Azwan enjoys singing (badly) to his fiancé, reading comics and working on creative projects. You can follow him @azwanicus.
Veronica Flores
Senior Social Media Manager
Veronica Flores is IndieWire’s Senior Social Media Manager. She previously worked as a social editor for E! News and celebrity-owned publication Nobleman Magazine. Her expertise is in digital strategy and creating social-first campaigns for industry leading brands. She’s covered world premieres and major award shows, from indie film red carpets to the Academy Awards. She manages IndieWire’s Senior Social and Culture Editor. You can follow her at @veronicasoflo
Vincent Perella
Senior Social and Culture Editor
Vincent Perella is the Senior Social and Culture Editor at IndieWire, who posts to IndieWire’s social media feeds in addition to leading red carpet and party coverage. Born and raised outside of Boston, and a graduate of Suffolk University, he has helped run social media content and strategy at Boston Magazine, The New York Times, ODDA Magazine, and Vice. An obnoxious consumer of copious amounts of anything film and television related, Vincent strives to put a spotlight on content that has a rich story to tell and a clear message for the world.
Grace Cornejo
Director of Events
Grace Cornejo is IndieWire’s Director of Events, currently living and working in Los Angeles (and is a rare Los Angeles born and raised native). A creative and strategic person by nature, she is a seasoned industry professional with over ten years of experience doing events that combine brand strategy with overall vision and a large sprinkle of fun and creativity. Her roster of accomplishments and notable events range a wide variety of experiential activations, consumer and B2B events, red carpet premieres, award shows, media centers, festivals and tours all over the globe (including, but not limited to notable premieres in London and India).
*Portraits for Dana Harris-Bridson, James Israel, Jason Gonzalez, Anne Thompson, and Ben Travers were taken by photographer Daniel Bergeron.
