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INDEPENDENT FILM & TELEVISION ALLIANCE® ANNOUNCES NEW CHAIRPERSON & BOARD OF DIRECTORS FOR 2025-2027 TERM
Paul Bales of The Asylum Elected Chair; Executives from Artist View Leisure, Leisure Squad, Gleneagles Movies, Highland Movie Group, STUDIOCANAL, TPC and Imaginative and prescient Movies added to Board
Los Angeles, CA – October 30, 2025 – The Impartial Movie & Tv Alliance® (IFTA®), the worldwide commerce affiliation for impartial movie and tv manufacturing, finance, distribution, and gross sales corporations, right this moment introduced the outcomes of its annual elections of the Chairperson and Board of Administrators for the 2025-2027 time period. The newly seated Board underscores IFTA’s ongoing dedication to management that advances the expansion, power, and international affect of the impartial movie and tv {industry}.
Paul Bales, Accomplice and Chief Working Officer at The Asylum, has been elected Chairperson. Bales, who has served a number of phrases on the IFTA Board since 2015, succeeds outgoing Chair Clay Epstein (Movie Mode Leisure) who served two consecutive 2-year phrases.
Bales joins IFTA’s 15-member Board of Administrators, together with seven IFTA member executives : Scott Bedno, Managing Director, Gross sales & Acquisitions, TPC, Shaked Berenson, CEO, Leisure Squad, Scott Jones, President/CEO, Artist View Leisure, Chloé Marquet, Head of Worldwide Gross sales, STUDIOCANAL, Delphine Perrier, COO, Highland Movie Group, Lise Romanoff, Managing Director/CEO, Imaginative and prescient Movies, and Michael Ryan, Director, Gleneagles Movies. This marks the primary time period on the IFTA Board for Jones and Perrier.
Administrators at present serving the second yr of their two-year Board time period are Brian Beckmann, CFO, Arclight Movies,Caroline Couret-Delegue, Managing Director, Movie Seekers Restricted, Michael Dwyer, EVP, Worldwide Gross sales & Distribution, Resurgence Media Group, Michael Favelle, CEO, Odin’s Eye Leisure, Diane Ferrandez, SVP, Worldwide Gross sales & Distribution, AGC Studios, George Hamilton, Chief Business Officer, Protagonist Footage, and Alice Laffille, VP, Worldwide Gross sales, FilmNation Leisure.
“I’m proud to function Chairperson and to proceed IFTA’s important work on behalf of the Independents,” stated Bales. “These are difficult instances for the {industry}, and I’m particularly happy to serve alongside such an skilled and considerate group of Administrators, every possessing nice instincts, information, and the flexibility to persevere. Our members are the bedrock of a artistic and progressive {industry} and IFTA is dedicated to supporting their efforts to get impartial movies made and to succeed in audiences around the globe.”
“Paul’s deep understanding of our enterprise and unwavering dedication to IFTA will make him an impressive Chairperson,” stated Jean Prewitt, IFTA President & CEO. “His management, along with our newly appointed Board, will probably be invaluable as we navigate each the continuing challenges and new alternatives forward. Their resilience continues to outline what it means to be impartial.”
Since 2006, Paul Bales has been the Chief Working Officer and Accomplice at The Asylum, a manufacturing and distribution firm primarily based in Burbank, California. Since its founding in 1997, The Asylum has launched greater than 500 movies and constructed a library of over 300 unique productions, together with top-rated collection for Syfy and Netflix, and the Sharknadofranchise. Previous to becoming a member of The Asylum, Bales served as Nationwide Director of SAGIndie, the Display Actors Guild outreach program for impartial producers. Bales has been energetic with IFTA, having performed a key position as an elected member of the Board of Administrators all through his profession, most not too long ago throughout the 2023–2025 time period. He’s additionally a long-time member of the Producers Guild of America and the Academy of Tv Arts & Sciences.
Concerning the Impartial Movie & Tv Alliance
IFTA is the worldwide commerce affiliation for impartial movie and tv manufacturing, finance, distribution, and gross sales corporations. The group represents the impartial sector earlier than governments and worldwide our bodies and gives important leisure {industry} providers to its member corporations in additional than 20 nations consisting of impartial manufacturing and distribution corporations, gross sales brokers, and monetary establishments engaged in manufacturing finance. Every November, it produces the American Movie Market, the world’s largest movement image occasion, drawing 1000’s of {industry} leaders from 80 nations and resulting in greater than $1 Billion in distribution and movie financing offers. IFTA additionally develops and publishes the IFTA Mannequin Agreements which articulate the industry-wide requirements and key definitions for licensing worldwide rights in movement photos and tv programming and are reviewed and revised recurrently to maintain tempo with the evolving worldwide movie and tv {industry}. For extra data on IFTA, go to www.IFTA-online.org.
Media Contact:
Jennifer Garnick |VP, Communications
Impartial Movie & Tv Alliance
jgarnick@ifta-online.org| +1.310.446.1006
AmericanFilmMarket.com | IFTA-online.org
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