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Andrew Karpen Remembered: Bleecker Street Media Founder Was a Force in Indie Film, Beloved for Integrity and Kindness
The death of Andrew Karpen, the founder of Bleecker Street and the former head of Focus Features, at 59 has shattered the indie film community.
Andrew was so full of irrepressible energy that his death on April 28 at the age of 59 of glioblastoma has left me and his many friends across the independent film world shaken. As the co-head of Focus Features in the early aughts and then as the founder of Bleecker Street, Andrew helped bring culture-defining films like “Brokeback Mountain,” “Captain Fantastic” and “The Kids Are All Right” to screens. And unlike so many of his contemporaries in the business, Andrew had things in perspective; he loved movies, but he was more interested in talking about his wife, Pam, and the theater she ran near his hometown, or his kids, Joshua, Zack and Sloan, and their academic or professional accomplishments.
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