MarVista Bolsters Sales Team

LOS ANGELES, April 1: As
it celebrates its fifth anniversary, MarVista Entertainment is heading into
MIPTV with a bolstered sales team after announcing the promotion of Vanessa
Goglio and the hire of Terese Linden Kohn.

Goglio has been upped to
the newly created position of senior VP of international sales. She joined the
company last April from Sony Pictures Television International as VP of sales,
managing territories such as France, Italy, Japan and Scandinavia. Goglio will
report directly to Fernando Szew, MarVista’s CEO, and will be responsible for most Western European
territories, plus Japan, Poland, Hungary, Romania and Canada.

Linden Kohn joins the
MarVista team as VP of international sales following several years with
American World Pictures, where she served as executive VP of distribution.
Linden Kohn will be responsible for Asia (excluding Japan), Scandinavia,
Russia, CIS, Baltics, Turkey, Greece and Cyprus. Beatrice McMillan, who joined
MarVista in April 2007, will continue to serve as VP of international sales. She will liaise with clients in Latin America, Israel,
Africa, the Middle East, Portugal and several Eastern European territories.
Both McMcMillan and Linden Kohn will report to Goglio.

The changes have been prompted by the company’s growth. Over the last three
years, Szew and Michael D. Jacobs, MarVista’s president, have invested more
than $60 million in movie production and rights acquisitions, serving as
executive producers and acquiring the international distribution rights to
20-plus television movies.

“Now in our fifth year in
business, we have seen incredible growth both in terms of our own productions,
and our relationships with third party producers whose programming we
represent,” commented Szew. “It is imperative that we invest in our sales team,
the face of our company, to represent our programming overseas and to continue
to develop strong client relationships. Vanessa has done an outstanding job
during her first year with the company and we are confident that she is
well-positioned to lead the sales team as we continue to grow our operations.”

Headlining the MIPTV slate are four of the company’s latest movie titles: Hidden
Camera, NYC Tornado Terror, A Girl’s Best Friend
and the thriller Deadly Pledge.

—By Mansha Daswani