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US factual organisation ITVS appoints Carrie Lozano as president and CEO

US documentary financier and coproducer ITVS has appointed Carrie Lozano as its new president and CEO after a five-month search for a successor to Sally Jo Fifer.

Carrie Lozano

Lozano’s first day at ITVS will be August 7, with the documentary filmmaker and journalist joining the organisation from the Sundance Institute, where she served as director of documentary film and artist programmes.

San Francisco-based ITVS began its search for a new boss in January, having announced Fifer’s departure after 22 years.

The ITVS board worked with the executive search firm Russell Reynolds Associates to recruit Lozano, its fourth president and CEO since the non-profit organisation was founded.

ITVS said Lozano will continue to protect independent artists’ voices, editorial control and copyright while elevating non-fiction storytelling as an essential strategy for public media to reach new and diverse audiences.

Backed by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, ITVS funds and coproduces documentary films that it says “empower Americans, via public media, to make informed democratic choices.”

Prior to Sundance, Lozano designed and directed the International Documentary Association (IDA)’s Enterprise Documentary Fund.

She supported filmmakers with funding and journalistic resources on projects such as ITVS-funded titles Through the Night, One Child Nation and Always in Season. At IDA, she also led the Pare Lorentz Documentary Fund, which focuses on films about environmental justice and other social issues.

Earlier in her career, Lozano was an executive at Al Jazeera America and a senior producer of the investigative series Fault Lines.

Lozano produced the ITVS-funded and Academy Award-nominated documentary The Weather Underground, a live cinema piece called Utopia In Four Movements and produced, directed and edited Reporter Zero. Her most recent film was the 2016 documentary The Ballad of Fred Hersch.

“Carrie’s integrity as an investigative journalist, her leadership experience and her fierce commitment to filmmakers and democracy will lift our field, partners and incredible staff for many years to come,” said ITVS board chair Garry Denny.

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