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Utopia Names Sundance Vet Charlie Sextro As SVP Acquisitions & Business Development
Utopia names Sundance Senior Film Programmer Charlie Sextro as SVP Acquisitions & Business Development.
Sextro’s long tenure at Sundance saw him help curate the festival program from over 4,000 feature film submissions each year to a lineup of fewer than 100, all the while developing and maintaining relationships with filmmakers, studios and industry leaders. He supported the early work of many of the most beloved contemporary filmmakers like Ryan Coogler, Sean Baker, Chloé Zhao, Ari Aster, Janicza Bravo, DANIELS and Jordan Peele. Outside of Sundance, Sextro has held positions as the Editor-in-Chief of streamer DOCUMENTARY+, an interviewer for The Creative Independent, and programming duties at Red Bull Music Festival, Portland Art Museum, and FORM Arcosanti.
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