Richard Lorber is the President and CEO of Kino Lorber Inc., the company that was established three years ago through his acquisition of Kino International Corp., the 30 year old leader in the release of acclaimed world cinema, award winning american independent films and classics. Kino Lorber, with a distinguished library of over 700 titles, acquires and releases over 20 new films per year theatrically on its three labels, Kino Lorber, Kino Classics and Alive Mind Cinema as well as over 60 per year digitally and on dvd and blu-ray. Its digital output deals and key relationships extend to over a dozen leading platforms including Netflix, Amazon, Vudu, YouTube, Hulu, Snag Films and others; the company also deploys an in-house e-toolbox for digital marketing and direct to consumer VOD offerings from its own sites. Recent theatricals that played markets across the U.S. are are: Poetry (Cannes prize winner), Le Quattro Volte, City of Life and Death, Jean Luc Godard's "Film Socialisme" and "Mill and the Cross"  with Rutger Hauer and Charlotte Rampling, among others. The Company's "transformative" documentaries under its Alive Mind Cinema banner including the "El Bulli: Cooking in Progress", about molecular gastronomy at the world's most famous avant garde restaurant, and "Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow" about the artist Anselm Kiefer and his transformation of a village in France into a sculptural installation. Soon to be released are "Kumare", last year's SXSW audience award winner and "Elles" starring Juliette Binoche, key titles among a new slate of over a dozen films.
 
An industry pioneer with over thirty years experience, Mr. Lorber was the co-founder and head of Fox Lorber, which he later merged into the telecom WinStar. As Co-Chairman of WinStar TV and Video, he also led the acquisition of Wellspring Media. Mr. Lorber subsequently founded and served for 6 years as President of Koch Lorber Films, partnered with the company now known as Entertainment 1, where he released such classics as La Dolce Vita and The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and important recent films such as Chop Shop (R.Bahrani) and Andrez Wajda’s Katyn.

Before his business career, Richard Lorber earned bachelors, masters and doctoral degrees from Columbia University and spent several years teaching art history (Assistant Professor, New York University), and as an art critic (Artforum). He was also an adjunct instructor in The New School’s Media Studies graduate division. The French government has honored him with the “Chevalier de L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.” He is also Chairman of the Board of Film Forum, America’s pre-eminent non-profit cinema for art house films and documentaries.

Fandor co-founder Jonathan Marlow is an accomplished cinematographer, composer and curator as well as an idiosyncratic filmmaker with more than twenty-five short films and video installations to his credit. In the decade prior to his role as Vice President of Acquisitions and Development for the Fandor service, Marlow was affiliated with a number of technology-centric film-related companies (such as Amazon, GreenCine and VUDU) and film exhibition institutions (namely San Francisco Cinematheque and the Seattle International Film Festival, among others). He is known to regularly draw on his disparate industry experience in numerous articles and interviews on issues pertaining to the motion picture business. Concurrently, Marlow hosts intermittent film screenings throughout the country showcasing remarkable cinematic works that are otherwise unavailable elsewhere.

Jill most recently served as the Executive Director of the Nantucket Film Festival, which she founded along with her brother Jonathan Burkhart in 1996. Throughout her tenure at the Nantucket Film Festival, Burkhart oversaw content and programming, including serving as a curator of the film program, developing panel topics, selecting scripts and cast for readings, and cultivating relationships with screenwriters, filmmakers, and industry executives. Previously, Burkhart worked with Madstone Films as a curator for its Very Indie Film Series and also lead the Screenwriters Colony, a month long writing retreat for screenwriters to work on their scripts with industry professionals. Jill attended New York University for Theatre and The New School for Film.