Cheryl Boone Isaacs has been named founding director of the newly established Sidney Poitier New American Film School at Arizona State U. Boone Isaacs will be director of the three-campus film scho…
New American Film School at Arizona State U. Boone Isaacs will be director of the three-campus film school starting Jan. 1. She will lead from the ASU California Center in Los Angeles as well as from Tempe and Mesa.
Boone Isaacs is a decades-long veteran of the film biz as a marketing and PR maven. She is now best known as president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 2013-17. She was the first Black person and third woman elected to the post and made it her mission to diversify Hollywood over the years. Boone Isaacs will continue her mission to lead change in the film industry as the new director of the film school.
She began working in the 1970s, at Columbia . She also served at Mel Simon Prods. and the Ladd Co. She was worldwide publicity director at Paramount through 1997, then moved to New Line, where she became president of theatrical marketing, the first Black woman to hold that position at any studio. Earlier this year, ASU renamed its film school after Poitier. The move was part of a commitment to diversity in storytelling and storytellers. The Sidney Poitier New American Film School, with nearly 700 students, is one of five schools in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at ASU.
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