The Board of Governors of the Motion Picture Academy voted on Thursday to establish a new executive structure for the organization, replacing retiring executive director Bruce Davis with former Film Independent head Dawn Hudson and long-time Academy executive Ric Robertson, who will become the organization’s CEO and COO respectively. Robertson will report to Hudson in the new leadership tandem.Hudson has spent 20 years at the helm of Film Independent, which grew from a small non-profit into a ...

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The Telluride Film Festival, presented by the National Film Preserve, Ltd. with Apple, is proud to announce its new festival venue and film showcase, Backlot, will be unveiled at the 34th Telluride Film Festival, August 31 through September 3, 2007. Backlot, an intimate screening room built for the Festival at Telluride’s Wilkinson Library, was created by Festival co-directors Tom Luddy and Gary Meyer to further enhance the Festival’s standing tribute to the art of film and give festival goe...