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David Ninh, Late Of Kickstarter And Film Society Of Lincoln Center, Moves To Kino Lorber As Director of Press and Publicity

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New York, NY – April 17, 2018 – Kino Lorber announced today that David Ninh is joining the company as Director of Press and Publicity, beginning at Kino Lorber on April, 23, 2018. He will report to the company’s Senior VP Theatrical, Non-theatrical Distribution & Acquisitions Wendy Lidell and to Company CEO Richard Lorber for corporate communications.

Ninh was previously at Kickstarter as their Senior Communications Specialist overseeing press and publicity outreach for their Film and Arts & Culture categories (including Art, Performance, Publishing, Music, Food and LGBTQ communities). He also worked on company launches like Kickstarter’s DRIP funding subscription tool for creators and helped manage the company’s partnership with Sundance Institute to collaborate with filmmakers on launching campaigns. As Kickstarter’s first Film Media Relations executive he advised filmmakers, artists and creators on engaging and building community during the initial funding stages of many notable film and arts projects.

Ninh also formerly worked at Film Society of Lincoln Center for four years on their publicity team, promoting the organization’s year-round programming, theatrical new releases and repertory programming. He worked on the organization’s world renowned film festivals including the New York Film Festival and New Directors/New Films and led press initiatives for special retrospective film series such as Fifty Years of John Waters: How Much Can You Take? and Foxy, the Complete Pam Grier.

Prior to his tenure at Lincoln Center, David Ninh was an account executive at PMK-BNC working on major national media and corporate accounts, after several years as the entertainment and style staff writer for The Dallas Morning News.

Company CEO Richard Lorber commented “David’s varied and focused media experience fills a major gap for us, strengthening our reach across all legacy outlets and new media platforms. We expect him to assume a central role in the company in keeping with our rapid growth and digital expansion. His talents will entwine beautifully with our own DNA.”

Kino Lorber recently opened Sophie Fiennes’s Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami, Rüdiger Suchsland’s Hitler’s Hollywood, Bill Gunn’s restoration of Personal Problems, and Rachel Israel’s Keep the Change.

ABOUT KINO LORBER
With a library of 2,000 titles, Kino Lorber has been a leader in independent art house distribution for 35 years, releasing over 30 films per year theatrically under its Kino Lorber, Kino Classics, Zeitgeist and Alive Mind Cinema banners, including six Academy Award®-nominated films in the last eight years.

In addition, the company brings over 350 titles yearly to the home entertainment and educational markets through physical and digital media releases. With an expanding family of distributed labels, Kino Lorber handles releases in ancillary media for Zeitgeist Films, Carlotta USA, Adopt Films, Raro Video, and others, placing physical titles through all wholesale, retail, and direct to consumer channels as well as direct distribution to all major and many new Digital VOD platforms.
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