Cynthia Swartz is the founder and president of StrategyPR/Consulting, a boutique entertainment firm started in September 2011. Prior to that, she was a Partner and Co-Head of 42West’s Entertainment Marketing Division. Swartz has been responsible for creating, implementing, and overseeing film release campaigns, film awards campaigns, film festival launches, and publicity initiatives for a wide array of studios, financing and production companies, and filmmakers and talent. Swartz worked on the release, awards and/or festival campaigns for films including Emilio Estevez’s “The Way,” Nicholas Jarecki’s “Arbitrage,” Sacha Gervasi’s “Anvil! The Story of Anvil,” Sidney Lumet’s “Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead,” Julian Schnabel’s “The Diving Bell & the Butterfly,” Ryan Fleck’s “Half Nelson,” Armando Iannucci’s “In The Loop,” Derek Cianfrance’s “Blue Valentine,” Stephen Gaghan’s “Syriana,” Oren Moverman’s “The Messenger,” Todd Field’s “Little Children,” Kelly Reichardt’s “Wendy & Lucy,” Craig Brewer’s “Hustle & Flow,” James Toback’s “Tyson,” Cindy Meehl’s “Buck,” Carl Deal and Tia Lessin’s “Trouble The Water,” Peter Weir’s “The Way Back,” Luca Guadagnino’s “I Am Love,” Amir Bar-Lev’s “The Tillman Story,” Alex Gibney’s “Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer,” Noah Baumbach’s “The Squid & the Whale,” James Gray’s “Two Lovers,” Ben Affleck’s “Gone Baby Gone,” and Tony Gilroy’s “Michael Clayton.” Swartz also played a pivotal role on the Oscar-winning awards campaigns for best picture winners including Paul Haggis’ “Crash," the Coen Brothers' "No Country for Old Men" and Kathryn Bigelow’s “The Hurt Locker.” She also represents a number of acclaimed filmmakers including Edward Norton, Tony Gilroy and David O'Russell. Prior to joining 42West, Swartz spent several years as an Executive Vice President of Publicity at Miramax Films, overseeing national publicity and awards campaigns for theatrical releases under the leadership of Harvey Weinstein. In this role, Swartz handled national release campaigns for many of the company’s classic titles and/or also served as the company’s chief awards campaign strategist on films that included Neil Jordan’s “The Crying Game,” Jane Campion’s “The Piano,” Quentin Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction,” Anthony Minghella’s “The English Patient,” John Madden’s “Shakespeare in Love,” Roberto Benigni’s “Life is Beautiful,” Lasse Hallström’s “The Cider House Rules,” Rob Marshall’s “Chicago,” Marc Forster’s “Finding Neverland,” Ulu Grosbard’s “Georgia,” Julie Taymor’s “Frida,” Fernando Meirelles’ “City of God,” Stephen Frears’ “Dirty Pretty Things,” Stephen Daldry’s “The Hours,” Quentin Tarantino’s “Jackie Brown,” Douglas McGrath’s “Emma,” Denys Arcand’s “The Barbarian Invasions,” Gus Van Sant’s “Good Will Hunting,” Tom McCarthy’s “The Station Agent,” John Sayles’ “Passion Fish,” Phillip Noyce’s “The Quiet American,” Richard Eyre’s “Iris,” Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s “Amelie,” Sharon Maguire’s “Bridget Jones Diary,” Martin Scorsese’s “The Aviator,” Billy Bob Thornton’s “Sling Blade,” Woody Allen’s “Bullets Over Broadway,” Michael Radford’s “Il Postino,” and Todd Field’s “In The Bedroom,” among many others. Swartz began her career working with acclaimed foreign and independent film publicist Renee Furst.

Marian Koltai-Levine is currently the Executive Vice President of the film department at PMK*BNC. As the department head, Marian strives to create a home for strategic ideas to intersect with marketing and communications execution. Her approach to marketing and distribution reflects the team's prior experience on both the studio and agency sides of the film industry. Under Marian’s direction, the film department at PMK*BNC has run successful campaigns for Roadside Attractions’ The Music Never Stops, The Weinstein Company’s Sarah’s Key and I Don’t Know How She Does It starring Sarah Jessica Parker, Film District’s “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark,” Sony Pictures Classics’ Beats, Rhymes and Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest and an academy award campaign for Hors-la-loi (Outside the Law), which was nominated for Best Foreign Language Feature. Most recently, Marian led the 2012 Sundance Film Festival campaign for Beasts of the Southern Wild which won the Grand Jury Prize in the U.S. Dramatic Competition. Additional clients include OWN’s Documentary Film Club, which received three Emmy nominations for Becoming Chaz.

As Marian is passionate about new voices and the global artistic community, she additionally represents various arts nonprofits including Sundance Institute and IFP. She is recognized for offering clients a complete “outsourced marketing department,” as well as theatrical distribution services.

Prior to her current position, Marian was the Founder and President of Zipline Entertainment, which launched in April of 2009. Zipline Entertainment became a leader in the evolving world of content and distribution and joined the PMK*BNC family in August, 2010. Some of Zipline's notable successes include: Is Anybody There?; Bass Ackwards; the award-winning documentary Racing Dreams; Focus Features' The Kids Are All Right; the new cable channel EPIX; and last year's Independent Film Summit in conjunction with MOMA and IndieWIRE. In addition, Zipline Entertainment has represented MOMA/Film Society of Lincoln Center's “New Directors/New Films Festival.” Marian has established herself as an expert on marketing and distribution, speaking on panels at Sundance Film Festival, SXSW, IFP, and the Producers Guild conference, as well as teaching courses at Columbia, Yale and New York University.

Marian was named one of the hundred most powerful women in Hollywood by The Hollywood Reporter. She is a featured speaker at the Produced By Conference, Sundance Institute, Independent Film Project, Variety Marketing Conference, and several others.

A former biology studies major, Ngoc Nguyen fell into the movie industry by happenstance. Her first ever introduction to entertainment was as a volunteer for this very festival. She was eventually hired on staff at South by Southwest and also spent a few years working at Austin Film Festival. Wanting to spread her wings in the City of Angels, Ngoc moved westward to L.A. in 2001. Her first job was at Miramax Films where, ironically, she ended up splitting her time between Los Angeles and Austin, working closely on Robert Rodriguez's films for the studio.

After Miramax, Ngoc worked for three years at Creative Artists Agency in Corporate Communications. She has spent the last six years as a publicist at Paramount Pictures where she has worked on films such as Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, Rango, The Fighter, Star Trek, Super 8 and Cloverfield. When she's not working, she's a sports enthusiast who is obsessed with making it to all of the tennis grand slams. And, forever a Texan at heart, she tries to get back to Austin as much as possible for that BBQ she actually never liked while she lived there.

As the head of MPRM’s film practice, Ridinger oversees comprehensive film publicity, taking many projects from unit publicity though successful release campaigns and developing unique publicity models for alternative distribution, including digital and cable VOD platforms. Since joining MPRM in 2009, Ridinger has managed campaigns for Focus Features, Summit Entertainment, Lionsgate, Magnolia Pictures, Roadside Attractions and NBC Universal.