FilmFestivals.com appoints Patrick de Bokay
to head new L.A. office
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Filmfestivals.com, the leading online server for film festivals around the world
FilmFestivals.com appoints Patrick de Bokay to head their new L.A. office
In March, Filmfestivals.com appointed film industry executive Patrick de Bokay as Vice-President of Worldwide Sales & Marketing. Company President Malo Girod de lıAin and COO Bruno Chatelin announced de Bokay will head the companyıs new Los Angeles office.
De Bokay has more than twenty years experience in the industry — first as Director of Marketing for Twentieth Century Fox Theatrical in Paris and, subsequently, as Vice-President/International Marketing for Turner Pictures Worldwide Distribution in Los Angeles. Prior to that, he had worked for some ten years in European international marketing and advertising with the Ted Bates Advertising Group, both in Paris and New York. De Bokay received his MBA equivalent in marketing and international business from the University of Paris IX Dauphine.
For the past three years, de Bokay has been operating his own worldwide sales and marketing consultancy, Golya Entertainment, in Los Angeles and Paris. Malo Girod de lıAin noted, ³The time is right for us to open our operations in Los Angeles, and we are fortunate to have someone with Patrickıs experience and knowledge of the industry available to join us. He will play a leading role as we step up our sales and marketing activities worldwide.²
De Bokay said, ³I have been following the progress made by Filmfestivals.com as it has grown over the past few years and have been very impressed by what they have achieved. I am looking forward to being a part of their continued expansion as they grow their interactive online world premieres and their monthly syndicated film festivals television show.²
Bruno Chatelin, former Managing Director of UGC/Fox Distribution in Paris, added, ³I have known Patrick since his days at UGC/Fox and his capabilities will be an exact fit for the sales and marketing job we need to be done. He has the right contacts in Los Angeles and is the person to move our Hollywood office forward. Patrick will expand our partnerships with rights holders, studios, and independents.²
Filmfestivals.com, which recently launched the online world premieres of six feature-length films for broadband users, is headquartered in Paris with offices also in the UK, Italy, and the USA. The company was founded by Malo Girod de lıAin, president, in 1995 when it created the first website for the Cannes International Film Festival. The site now lists more than 1,000 film festivals worldwide, and has extensive online tools to help festival organizers, filmmakers, producers, distributors in marketing, film registration, web presence and ticket sales. FilmfestivalsTV was launched at last yearıs Berlin Film Festival with video coverage of major festivals. FilmfestivalsTV produces a monthly television show, Non Stop Film Festivals, for worldwide syndication. The latest show, which was in January, covered the Palm Springs, Sundance, and Rotterdam festivals.
Patrick de Bokay can be contacted at pdb@filmfestivals.com. For public relations/press info contact Michael Dalling or Elyce Chalme at
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