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Christian Blauvelt

Christian Blauvelt is the Digital Director of IndieWire, involved in running all site operations from the Product side to Editorial, where he top edits the News team, which is composed of his hires. He also oversees IndieWire’s evergreen and list strategy.


The site’s overall health is Blauvelt’s responsibility, and he manages staffers on both coasts, while overseeing editorial standards, traffic targets, and other key metrics. He is also the primary editorial supervisor of sponsorship deliverables not being steered by IndieWire’s Special Projects team, and he manages the rollout of sponsored editorial from Sundance, the site’s own live media, and other partnership initiatives, as well as managing the freelance budget. He has moderated discussions at IndieWire’s Consider This Brunch event and is a regular interviewer of filmmakers and their casts at the IndieWire Studio, building off years of experience as a moderator of post-screening Q&As for BAFTA and SAG-AFTRA and as host of panels at SXSW and San Diego Comic-Con.


He is based in the Tampa Bay area, where he was born and raised, having returned after 12 years in New York City. He's the author of books including "Hollywood Victory," the story of how the American film industry contributed to the war effort during World War II, for Hachette's Running Press imprint. A specialist in film history, he won a 2021 Southern California Journalism Award for his obituary of Sean Connery, and has appeared on TCM multiple times as a guest programmer. A graduate of the Radio/TV/Film program at Northwestern University, Blauvelt launched his career at Entertainment Weekly before then spending five years as Deputy Editor of BBC Culture. He loves the films of Baz Luhrmann, Terence Davies, and Jia Zhangke, is a Trekkie, will always defend Anne Heche, and he’s pretty much guaranteed to love any movie set in Florida or from the 1940s.

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