Our Mission
Since 2012, Cinema Conservancy has produced, preserved, exhibited, and provided financial and consulting support to dozens of American independent films. Through our various initiatives, we provide the public with access to American Independent Cinema, past and present.
THE TEAM
Andrew Adair, Executive Director
Andrew Adair is currently Executive Director at Cinema Conservancy. In the past, Andrew has worked as editor and delivery supervisor in film, documentary television and broadcast advertising. Adair recently produced Tony Stone's Peter and the Farm (New Directors New Films, 2016) and Matías Piñeiro's Hermia & Helena (Locarno, Toronto, 2016) after Shannon Plumb’s Towheads (Rotterdam, 2013) with Alex Orlovsky and Hunter Gray, and Executive Produced Bingham Bryant & Kyle Molzan’s For the Plasma (BAMcinemaFest, 2014).
Jake Perlin, Creative Director, Board Member
Jake Perlin is the Creative Director of Cinema Conservancy and was the founding Artistic Director and Director of Programming for Metrograph in New York. He was previously Associate Curator at BAMcinematek, and Programmer at Large for Film Society of Lincoln Center. Cinema Conservancy’s many projects include facilitating the preservation of Nothing But a Man (Michael Roemer, 1964) and The Student Nurses (Stephanie Rothman, 1970), the theatrical re-releases of Little Fugitive, Stations of the Elevated, the films of John and Faith Hubley, and Jamel Shabazz Street Photographer, co-producing films incuding Matías Piñiero’s Hermia and Helena and Manfred Kirchheimer’s Dream of a City and Free Time, and providing financial support to films including Rodney Evans’ Vision Portraits and Tony Stone’s Peter and the Farm. Perlin is founder of the distribution company The Film Desk, is a Chevalier des Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and has received the Heritage Award for film programming from the National Society of Film Critics, for the series “Tell It Like It Is”, co-programmed with Michelle Materre.
THE Board
Hunter Gray, President/Co-Founder
Hunter Gray is a film producer under his banner Ousia Entertainment as well as co-founder of Cinema Conservancy. Gray’s past producing credits include THE WOLFPACK, I ORIGINS, ANOTHER EARTH, TERRI, MOMMA’S MAN, VOY A EXPLOTAR and HALF NELSON.
Tyler Brodie, Vice President/Co-Founder
Tyler Brodie is the co-founder of DFA Records, Verisimilitude and Cinema Conservancy. DFA has put out records by LCD Soundsystem, the Rapture, Hot Chip and many others. As a film producer Tyler has executive produced over 20 films including PI, UNTIL THE LIGHT TAKES US, ANOTHER EARTH, and THE WOLFPACK. He most recently produced THE PUBLIC IMAGE IS ROTTEN.
Jonathan D. Reichman, Board Member
Jonathan has over 30 years’ experience in litigation, licensing and counseling matters in copyright, trademark, unfair competition and right of publicity law, particularly for clients in the entertainment industry. World Trademark Review 1000 recognizes him as a leader in trademark matters and notes that he has “specific expertise in protecting rights related to fictional characters” (2016). He is ranked by Chambers & Partners USA in the area of “Intellectual Property: Trademark & Copyright” in the United States (2018) and in New York (2014, 2016-2017). In addition, Jonathan has been recognized as a leading intellectual property lawyer by New York Super Lawyers (2017). He is also recognized in the area of copyright law by The US Legal 500 (2016-2018) and U.S. News and World Report/Best Lawyers (2018).
A major aspect of Jonathan’s practice involves the protection, defense, enforcement, licensing and exploitation of rights vested in fictional and animated characters. He has handled complex issues concerning such characters and properties as Spider-Man, X-Men, Superman, Batman, Barbie, Peanuts, Strawberry Shortcake, Babar the Elephant, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Teletubbies, The Berenstain Bears, Inspector Gadget, Franklin The Turtle, Raggedy Ann and Andy, Mr. Bill and The Woodstock Festivals.
Philipp Englehorn, Board Member
Philipp Engelhorn founded Cinereach, an independent film company dedicated to vital, artful filmmaking. Cinereach productions and co-productions include the narrative feature films "We the Animals," "Sorry to Bother You," as well as the documentaries "MATANGI / MAYA / M.I.A." and "Brimstone & Glory." "Selah and the Spades," "The Florida Project," "Strong Island," "Last Men in Aleppo," and the Academy Award nominated films "I Am Not Your Negro," "Cutie and the Boxer," and "Citizenfour," are among over 200 films Cinereach co-financed. Phil also serves on the boards of the Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP), Cinema Conservancy, Court 13 Arts, and is a Trustee of the Sundance Institute. Originally from Germany, Philipp attended NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and is currently based in New York.