CONNIE WHITE

After falling in love with film while living in Paris on a student visa, Connie returned to Massachusetts and applied for a job at Harvard Square’s historic Brattle Theatre. Within a few years, she’d graduated from selling tickets and popcorn to theater management, and by 1987, Connie, with business partner Marianne Lampke, owned and operated the Brattle. In 1992, the duo carved out time to launch the Boston International Festival of Women's Cinema (BIFWC), a groundbreaking, high profile, decade-long annual celebration, including visiting filmmakers Sofia Coppola, Alison Anders, Lisa Cholodenko, and Mary Harron, early in their careers.

While still running the Brattle Theatre, Connie was drafted across the Charles River in 1996 as film buyer for Brookline’s Coolidge Corner Theatre, a beloved-but-then-struggling cinema. Today, Connie continues to program and book the Coolidge, now one of the highest grossing independent art houses in the country.

In 1999, with the Brattle, Coolidge, and BIFWC at full sail, next to leave the dock is the maiden voyage of the Provincetown International Film Festival (PIFF), with Connie White on board as Artistic Director, buoyed by glittering, calming filmmaker John Waters, the festival’s spiritual sextant. Staying the course through 2016, Connie pulled into port for good after 18 exciting years with PIFF.

Selling the Brattle Theatre in 2001 opened opportunities for new pursuits, and Balcony Releasing, created initially to distribute Gail Dolgin and Vincent Franco’s heart wrenching Daughter From Danang, kicked off twenty theatrical releases over the next ten years after that film was nominated for a 2002 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.  Concurrently, Connie began to expand her film-buying business, now called Balcony Booking, for an ever-growing stable of outstanding unique art houses.

Deciding in 2012 to forgo distribution to focus exclusively on film buying, Connie continues to bring new theaters and festivals into the Balcony Booking fold. A founding member and sustaining contributor to the Art House Convergence, she stays abreast of all things germane to independent cinema exhibition, and above all, remains an advocate for bringing people together through film.  

MEGHAN BOWMAN

Meghan is in charge of all Repertory and Classic film buying. She joins Balcony Booking after many years on the exhibitor side, having spent a good chunk of her time in projection booths. Always happy to talk film and projection, Meghan is looking forward to building out her knowledge to include the world of film buying and all things Balcony!

GREG KENDALL

Enjoying for the most part many years on the indie music scene as a singer-songwriter, roadie, nightclub impresario, and concert promoter, plus scoring a couple of films, Greg joined Balcony Releasing in 2002, charged with sales and operations throughout that shingle's ten-year tenure. Entering college as a freshman in 2012 and graduating from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2016, Greg is happy to be back on the team.

JACQUELINE SHERIDAN

Jacqueline began her career in the movie business behind the counter of video stores and an independent cinema. She went on to work as a cashier for New Line Cinema and Fine Line Features during the 90’s. She studied documentary filmmaking at UMass, Amherst, which led to a fulfilling career as a producer for programing on The History Channel, PBS, and National Geographic Channel, among others. Jacqueline believes that independent art houses are the heart and soul of communities, and loves being on the support team at Balcony.

JULIA DUNLAVEY

Julia worked as the Assistant Executive Director at the Maine Film Center in Waterville, Maine for several years, where she coordinated repertory screenings, special guests, and maintained the website and internal databases. Prior to the exhibition industry, Julia worked in documentary production in Boston, where she was a Production Assistant for PBS NOVA. She believes that it is crucial to leverage data and tech to modernize the film exhibition industry, and is excited to learn more at Balcony.