Christian De Gallegos will be joining Insurgent Media’s Los Angeles team as head of international sales. De Gallegos will report to CEO Ezna Sands and will oversee international sales for Insurgent Media’s growing slate.
Most recently, De Gallegos ran sales for Green-Light International for titles including: Imperium starring Daniel Radcliffe; Urge starring Pierce Brosnan; and Custody starring Viola Davis, among others. Prior to Green-Light, De Gallegos served as president of International Film Trust, with titles including: Cymbeline starring Ethan Hawke, Milla Jovovich and Dakota Johnson which premiered at the Venice Film Festival; Stephen King’s Cell starring Samuel L Jackson and John Cusack; and Werner Herzog’s Salt & Fire. De Gallegos previously served as VP of sales at Voltage Pictures and handled international distribution for over 70 titles, including Academy Award®-winning The Hurt Locker, Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s Don Jon, Academy Award-nominated Dallas Buyers Club and Robert Redford’s The Company You Keep. De Gallegos started his career at Paradigm Talent Agency.
Insurgent Media recently partnered with VICE Films, 20th Century Fox and Chimney Pot to produce and finance Lords of Chaos, co-written and to be directed by Jonas Åkerlund and starring Rory Culkin, Emory Cohen, Jack Kilmer, Valter Skarsgård and Sky Ferreira. Insurgent Media’s current and past slate projects include Cathy Conrad’s TV thriller Cicada 3301; Academy Award®-winning documentary The Cove; and the Leonardo DiCaprio documentary, Before The Flood.
Utah Leaders and Locals Rally To Keep Sundance Film Festival In The State
With the 2025 Sundance Film Festival underway, Utah leaders, locals and longtime attendees are making a final push — one that could include paying millions of dollars — to keep the world-renowned film festival as its directors consider uprooting.
Thousands of festivalgoers affixed bright yellow stickers to their winter coats that read "Keep Sundance in Utah" in a last-ditch effort to convince festival leadership and state officials to keep it in Park City, its home of 41 years.
Gov. Spencer Cox said previously that Utah would not throw as much money at the festival as other states hoping to lure it away. Now his office is urging the Legislature to carve out $3 million for Sundance in the state budget, weeks before the independent film festival is expected to pick a home for the next decade.
It could retain a small presence in picturesque Park City and center itself in nearby Salt Lake City, or move to another finalist — Cincinnati, Ohio, or Boulder, Colorado — beginning in 2027.
"Sundance is Utah, and Utah is Sundance. You can't really separate those two," Cox said. "This is your home, and we desperately hope it will be your home forever."
Last year's festival generated about $132 million for the state of Utah, according to Sundance's 2024 economic impact report.
Festival Director Eugene Hernandez told reporters last week that they had not made a final decision. An announcement is expected this year by early spring.
Colorado is trying to further sweeten its offer. The state is considering legislation giving up to $34 million in tax incentives to film festivals like Sundance through 2036 — on top of the $1.5 million in funds already approved to lure the Utah festival to its neighboring... Read More