Bill Lindstrom will resign from his position as CEO of the Association of Film Commissioners International (AFCI) on Oct. 31. Lindstrom was hired eight years ago as the AFCI’s first chief executive.
AFCI board president Mary Nelson said a search for a new CEO is underway with plans to announce Lindstrom’s successor by the end of 2009.
Prior to becoming AFCI CEO, Lindstrom started and led the state film commissions for Iowa and Wyoming for 15 years. During his film commission years, Lindstrom also served four terms on the AFCI board of directors, including as AFCI board president from 1989-’90. He has been honored with the AFCI’s two service awards, the Dutch Horton and Crystal Vision Awards, for his work to improve AFCI’s professional development and marketing programs.
In a released statement, Lindstrom related, “What a remarkable experience. AFCI-member film commissions worldwide have grown dramatically in influence and value to their jurisdictions and to the creative industries. I feel fortunate to have been a part of that growth….and to have worked alongside the scores of visionary AFCI leaders committed to that purpose.”
Nelson described Lindstrom’s dedication to the AFCI and to the work of film commissioners worldwide as “exemplary.”
The AFCI has set up a website link for interested and prospective CEO applicants to access–www.afci.org/career–in order to learn about and apply for the position.
Review: Director Bong Joon Ho’s “Mickey 17” Starring Robert Pattinson
So you think YOUR job is bad?
Sorry if we seem to be lacking empathy here. But however crummy you think your 9-5 routine is, it'll never be as bad as Robert Pattinson's in Bong Joon Ho's "Mickey 17" — nor will any job, on Earth or any planet, approach this level of misery.
Mickey, you see, is an "Expendable," and by this we don't mean he's a cast member in yet another sequel to Sylvester Stallone's tired band of mercenaries ("Expend17ables"?). No, even worse! He's literally expendable, in that his job description requires that he die, over and over, in the worst possible ways, only to be "reprinted" once again as the next Mickey.
And from here stems the good news, besides the excellent Pattinson, whom we hope got hazard pay, about Bong's hotly anticipated follow-up to "Parasite." There's creativity to spare, and much of it surrounds the ways he finds for his lead character to expire — again and again.
The bad news, besides, well, all the death, is that much of this film devolves into narrative chaos, bloat and excess. In so many ways, the always inventive Bong just doesn't know where to stop. It hardly seems a surprise that the sci-fi novel, by Edward Ashton, he's adapting here is called "Mickey7" — Bong decided to add 10 more Mickeys.
The first act, though, is crackling. We begin with Mickey lying alone at the bottom of a crevasse, having barely survived a fall. It is the year 2058, and he's part of a colonizing expedition from Earth to a far-off planet. He's surely about to die. In fact, the outcome is so expected that his friend Timo (Steven Yeun), staring down the crevasse, asks casually: "Haven't you died yet?"
How did Mickey get here? We flash back to Earth, where Mickey and Timo ran afoul of a villainous loan... Read More