Ira Deutchman (Chair, President)
Ira Deutchman has been making, marketing, and distributing films since 1975, having worked on more than 150 independent films. He was one of the founders of Cinecom and later Fine Line Features. He was also a co-founder of Emerging Pictures, the first digital projection network in the U.S. and a pioneer in delivering live cultural events into movie theaters. Deutchman is Emeritus Professor at Columbia University, where he was the Chair of the Film Program from 2011 to 2015.
In 2017, Deutchman was awarded the Spotlight Lifetime Achievement Award by the Sundance Art House Convergence for his service to independent film marketing and distribution. Deutchman was awarded the Honorary Trailblazer Award at the 2024 Woodstock Film Festival. He has lived on the Upper West Side for more than 40 years.
Adeline Monzier (Vice-President)
Adeline Monzier is a guest programmer at Metrograph, an independent two-screen movie theater on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, and the founder of the Harlem film series Uptown Flicks.
She also organizes year-round student screenings at Film at Lincoln Center. From 2013 to 2024, she served as the U.S. representative of Unifrance, promoting French cinema abroad, and oversaw the Rendez-Vous with French Cinema festival in partnership with Film at Lincoln Center
Beth Krieger (Vice-President and Secretary)
Beth Krieger is the former Communications Director for the Calhoun School, responsible for marketing, public relations and communications for this independent school on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. During her 22 years in that capacity, she supported the school’s fundraising and admissions efforts, and created and managed the school’s website, social media, print and digital publications.
Most recently, Krieger was president of Upper West Side Save Our Stores, a community advocacy group that, pre-Covid, worked with local elected officials to research the reasons behind empty storefronts, and possible legislation and solutions to address the problems.
Caroline Baron
Caroline Baron is an award-winning film and television producer. She is an Executive Producer on the soon to be released limited series, The Beast in Me (Netflix) starring Claire Danes and Matthew Rhys and an Executive Producer on Severance – Season 2 (Apple). Her many credits include Producing the Oscar nominated film Capote and cross-cultural hit Monsoon Wedding, winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.
In 1999, motivated by reports of individuals fleeing their homes in Kosovo to seek refuge in crowded camps in Macedonia, Baron founded the non-profit organization FilmAid International. FilmAid, now a project of Internews, harnesses the power of film to support vulnerable communities worldwide.
Stephen Cohen
Cohen has been practicing real estate law for four decades. After graduating third in his class from New York Law School, he joined Rogers & Wells in New York. His talent for tackling complex business and real estate transactions led him to Minneapolis, where he served as in-house counsel for The Musicland Group, a national music and video retailer with hundreds of locations. Cohen then joined Rainforest Café as General Counsel and Senior Vice President of Real Estate, where he led the company’s national and international expansion.
Gina Duncan
Gina Duncan is CEO of The Moth, the nonprofit storytelling organization dedicated to the art and craft of personal narrative. A cultural strategist with more than two decades of experience leading arts organizations, she has spent her career shaping experiences that connect people to one another and to the stories that matter. Most recently before The Moth, she served as President of Brooklyn Academy of Music. Prior to that, she was Producing Director at the Sundance Institute. Before Sundance, she served as VP of Film and Strategic Programming at BAM, where she led the film program and BAMcinemaFest. She began her film exhibition career as Director of Industry Engagement and Special Programs at the Jacob Burns Film Center. She is a board member of Arthouse Convergence.
David Huntington
A partner in the Capital Markets and Securities Group of Paul, Weiss, David Huntington focuses his practice on corporate finance and securities transactions. Huntington has represented U.S. and foreign companies in a wide range of financial transactions. He has extensive experience providing advice regarding corporate governance, disclosure and other requirements of the U.S. securities laws applicable to U.S. and foreign public companies.
Prior to joining Paul, Weiss, Huntington served as counsel to Chairman William H. Donaldson and Chairman Christopher Cox of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C. and, prior to that, as senior counselor to the general counsel of the SEC.
Sally Klingenstein Martell
From 1994 – 2019 Sally was the Executive Director of The Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation. She earned her BA at Tulane University, MFA in Writing and Literature at Stony Brook University, and was a 2021 BookEnds Fellow. Sally has served on the boards of the 92nd Street Y and The Town School, and is a current trustee of Emma Willard School, The New York Historical, Klingenstein Philanthropies and is the President of the Klingenstein-Martell Foundation. She is now a full-time novelist.
Peter Koffler
Peter Koffler is a Senior Managing Director in the Legal & Compliance Group at Blackstone Inc. His previous positions at Blackstone include General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of the Blackstone Multi-Asset Group and Global Chief Compliance Officer of Blackstone. Prior to joining Blackstone in 2006, Koffler served as General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of Twenty-First Securities Corporation, an institutional trading and investment firm. Koffler began his legal career at Baer Marks & Upham.
Tim Blake Nelson
Tim Blake Nelson is an actor, writer, director, and producer who has appeared in over ninety films including O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Lincoln, Holes, Minority Report, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, and Old Henry.
Nelson is also an accomplished playwright and director. His playwriting credits include Socrates, The Grey Zone, Eye of God, and the soon to be produced And Then We Were No More. He directed the films O, Leaves of Grass, The Grey Zone, Eye of God, and Anesthesia, the last four of which he also wrote. His first novel, City of Blows, was published in 2023 and was released in paperback in early 2024.
Originally from Tulsa, Oklahoma, Nelson is a long-time resident of the Upper West Side.
Thomas Palatucci (Ex-Officio, Treasurer)
Thomas Palatucci began his career in banking, rising to the position of vice president, Office of the Chief Financial Officer, at Citicorp/Citibank. After 10+ years in the for-profit sector, he has devoted his expertise in the areas of strategy, operations and finance to the nonprofit world, initially at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, followed by Chief of Administration for Columbia Health at Columbia University, Chief Operating Officer at The Bronx Defenders, and Vice President of Operations at Planned Parenthood Mid-Hudson Valley.