Paola Freccero

Paola Freccero is Sundance Channel's Senior Vice President, Film Programming. In that role, she supervises the acquisition, programming and scheduling of Sundance Channel's film line-up which includes independent American and international features, documentaries, and shorts. In addition, Freccero's responsibilities include creating the programming plan for the recently-announced Sundance Documentary Channel. She will also be overseeing Sundance Channel Home Entertainment, the newly-created home video line to be distributed by Showtime Entertainment.

Freccero originally joined Sundance Channel in 1999 as a publicity consultant. Shortly thereafter, she was appointed Vice President, International, spearheading Sundance Channel's business development activities overseas.

Prior to joining Sundance Channel, Freccero was Artistic Director of the Nortel Palm Springs International Film Festival and the Palm Springs International Short Film Festival. During her tenure, she was credited with making the feature festival, held annually in January, a showcase for the international films submitted for Oscar™ consideration for Best Foreign Language Film. She also launched Palm Springs' first short film market, which runs concurrently with the short film festival each year in August.

Before joining the festival, Freccero spent five years working as a film publicist on such films as Academy Award™-winners The Usual Suspects, and Anne Frank Remembered; Oscar™ nominees Before the Rain, and Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern; and with directors such as Allison Anders, Gillian Armstrong, John Badham, Steve Buscemi, Marshall Hershkovitz, Derek Jarman, Roland Joffe, Spike Lee, Mike Leigh, Richard Linklater, D.A. Pennebaker, Sally Potter, Tim Roth, and Ed Zwick, among many others. Her previous television experience includes publicity efforts for ITVS, HBO and Turner Broadcasting.