We were happy to read via Variety that former Miramax acquisitions exec Arianna Bocco, who recently left the company, has landed at Gershs’ New York office where she will head “an independent feature film packaging unit” with a special emphasis on bringing international filmmakers into the Gersh fold. An admirably straight shooter in the tangled world of acquisitions, Bocco was a tenacious exec for both Miramax and her previous employer, New Line, and worked on such films as City of God.
by Scott Macaulay on Jan 18, 2005Agent Mike Lubin has rejoined the William Morris Agency, his home for eight years before he left for the Gersh Agency in 2000. You may remember that we blogged his abrupt departure from Gersh a few weeks ago and wondered where he’d wind up. According to Variety, such indie directors as Nicole Kassell, Rose Troche, Debra Granik and Alan Taylor will be travelling to WMA with him.
by Scott Macaulay on May 13, 2004If you’re like me and you skim through Variety online each day and then catch up on the pile of print editions every week or so, it was easy to miss the news, buried under the headline “Lit topper books a new gig,” that the Gersh Agency’s veteran NY agent Mike Lubin has, as the pub would say “ankled the tenpercentery.” Lubin’s clients include The Woodsmen director Nicole Kassell, director Alan Taylor, screenwriter (and former Filmmaker managing editor) Mike Jones, and director Rose Troche. At Gersh, Lubin always kept his eye out for emerging new indie film talent so it […]
by Scott Macaulay on Apr 13, 2004