Ladies In Movie has named its Board of Administrators EVP Syrinthia Studer as president, the group introduced at this time. Her tenure, which is able to begin 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 move the baton to a rare girl, government, and a good friend, WIF’s subsequent Board President, Syrinthia Studer,” Baer mentioned in an announcement. “A 25-year business veteran with a profession spanning from advertising 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 various expertise and extraordinary management abilities as a Board member since 2018, and most just lately, Govt Vice President of the WIF Govt Committee. She has a clear-eyed, formidable, and thrilling agenda for WIF in 2025 and past.”
WIF CEO Kirsten Schaffer added, “Syrinthia’s distinctive management report locations her on the forefront of our subject. “As Syrinthia prepares to step into the position, I need to lengthen my heartfelt because of Amy Baer for her stellar steering throughout some of the turbulent occasions in our business. I stay up for working carefully with Syrinthia to deliver innovation, excellence, and the recent perspective essential to advance fairness.”
Studer mentioned 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 speedy and transformative change. WIF’s mission of advancing and supporting girls, transgender, and nonbinary people throughout all sides of the display screen industries is important, now greater than ever. Because the business recalibrates in response to those new challenges, I stay up for working with Kirsten and the Board to satisfy the second.”
Studer involves the position with 25 years of business expertise, serving most just lately as government vice chairman of Worldwide Productions and Republic Photos at Paramount World. In her twin position, 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 artistic government 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 Reside Motion Studio and was chargeable for all elements 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 residence leisure platforms together with streaming and digital video-on-demand.
Her notable productions and acquisitions in these roles embody 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 Ok’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 with positions at nationwide theater circuit Loews Cineplex Leisure, Basic Mills and IBM.
She is a present board member for Huge Brothers Huge Sisters Los Angeles and is a member of the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences, with a brand new publish within the Executives Department Govt Committee.
WIF was based in 1973 in Los Angeles, preventing for gender fairness in Hollywood by means of advocacy, profession packages and analysis. It goals to dismantle sexism within the leisure world and enhance gender parity by means of illustration.
