Ladies In Movie has named its Board of Administrators EVP Syrinthia Studer as president, the group introduced as we speak. Her tenure, which can start subsequent yr, picks up following Amy Baer’s 9-year time period as chief of WIF’s board of administrators.
“I’m now thrilled to go the baton to a rare lady, govt, and a pal, WIF’s subsequent Board President, Syrinthia Studer,” Baer stated in a press release. “A 25-year business veteran with a profession spanning from advertising and marketing to growth, and from movie to digital platforms manufacturing within the U.S. and globally. Syrinthia is a daring and caring chief, and WIF has already benefited from her huge and numerous expertise and extraordinary management expertise as a Board member since 2018, and most lately, Govt Vice President of the WIF Govt Committee. She has a clear-eyed, bold, and thrilling agenda for WIF in 2025 and past.”
WIF CEO Kirsten Schaffer added, “Syrinthia’s distinctive management document locations her on the forefront of our subject. “As Syrinthia prepares to step into the function, I need to lengthen my heartfelt due to Amy Baer for her stellar steering throughout some of the turbulent occasions in our business. I look ahead to working carefully with Syrinthia to convey innovation, excellence, and the contemporary perspective essential to advance fairness.”
Studer stated of her appointment: “I’m grateful for Amy’s management and honored to be entrusted to take the baton at a time when the leisure business is experiencing such fast and transformative change. WIF’s mission of advancing and supporting girls, transgender, and nonbinary people throughout all aspects of the display screen industries is crucial, now greater than ever. Because the business recalibrates in response to those new challenges, I look ahead to working with Kirsten and the Board to fulfill the second.”
Studer involves the function with 25 years of business expertise, serving most lately as govt vice chairman of Worldwide Productions and Republic Photos at Paramount World. In her twin function, Studer oversaw content material technique, growth and manufacturing of native language movies, together with originals and culturally particular remakes sourced from Paramount’s huge library. She additionally served because the senior inventive govt for the studio’s distribution-focused movie label.
Throughout her lengthy tenure at Paramount World, she was additionally EVP of Movie for Nickelodeon and Awesomeness Stay Motion Studio and was chargeable for all points of live-action characteristic content material for the Children and Household unit, overseeing growth, manufacturing, acquisitions and co-financing. Beforehand, she held the place of EVP of Worldwide Acquisitions for Paramount Photos, spearheading the worldwide content material acquisitions enterprise, buying movies for home and worldwide theatrical releases and distribution throughout a number of house leisure platforms together with streaming and digital video-on-demand.
Her notable productions and acquisitions in these roles embrace E-book Membership, the $100 million field workplace success starring Jane Fonda, Diane Keaton, Mary Steenburgen and Candice Bergen; Richard Linklater’s Boyhood (in partnership with IFC Movies); critically praised teen comedy, Honor Society; Fantasy Soccer, produced in partnership with LeBron James’ Springhill Leisure, Genius Leisure, NFL Movies and EA Video games; Rob Peace, directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor; Mom Mom directed by Okay’Naan Warsame and Winter Spring Summer season or Fall directed by Tiffany Paulson and starring Jenna Ortega.
Previous to Paramount, Studer labored in enterprise growth and promotional advertising and marketing with positions at nationwide theater circuit Loews Cineplex Leisure, Basic Mills and IBM.
She is a present board member for Large Brothers Large Sisters Los Angeles and is a member of the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences, with a brand new put up within the Executives Department Govt Committee.
WIF was based in 1973 in Los Angeles, preventing for gender fairness in Hollywood by way of advocacy, profession packages and analysis. It goals to dismantle sexism within the leisure world and improve gender parity by way of illustration.
