Staff Members

Cheryl White’s marketing experience encompasses writing and editing, public relations, community outreach, and promotions. She was a freelance marketing communications consultant for 13 years, before moving on to produce and promote author events for a Boston bookstore. Most recently, she worked in the Adult Programs Department at the Museum of Science, Boston, researching program ideas, enlisting speakers, handling event logistics, and conducting grassroots outreach.  She is a literature lover, film fiend, baseball obsessive, and Jelly Belly fanatic.

Connie White has been active in the independent film business since 1986, when she started to program films for the Brattle Theatre in Harvard Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts. There, she served as co-owner, operator and film programmer/booker from 1987-2001. Since 1996, she has also been programming and booking art and independent films for the Coolidge Corner Theatre, and, more recently, for the Pleasant Street Theater in Northampton, Mass, the New Art Cinemas in Provincetown, Mass, the Amherst Cinema Arts Center in Amherst, Mass., and the Broadway Centre Cinemas in Salt Lake City, Utah.

In 1992, she co-founded the critically acclaimed Boston International Festival of Women's Cinema, which ran for 11 years. From 1999 - 2005, Ms. White served as the Artistic Director of the Provincetown International Film Festival in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

Taking what she has learned first-hand about specialty and art-film exhibition, in 2002 Ms. White created Balcony Releasing, which designs and implements theatrical distribution strategies for independently produced documentary features. Her first release, Daughter From Danang, went on to win an Academy Award Nomination for Best Feature Documentary, alongside Bowling for Columbine, Spellbound and Winged Migration. Other Balcony Releasing films include the acclaimed documentaries The Same River Twice, Love and Diane, Al Franken: God Spoke, So Much So Fast, Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner, and Budrus.

Ms. White was awarded The 2000 "Image Award for Vision and Excellence" from Women in Film and Video, New England. She served on the jury for the 2005 Sundance Film Festival.

Marianne has over two decades of professional experience in promoting and showcasing independent cinema and has worked with the Coolidge team since 1996. From 1986 to 2001 she co-owned the landmark Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts and developed a national reputation for high quality and distinctive film programming, marketing and publicity. The Brattle won over 50 awards during this period and became one of the highest grossing and most respected repertory movie screens in the world. From 1993 through 2003 Marianne co-founded and produced the Boston International Festival of Women's Cinema, which emerged as a leading showcase of commercial and independent works by women. She helped to launch the Provincetown International Film Festival (PIFF) in 1999 and became the festival's Director of Publicity through 2005, garnering major media coverage in numerous regional and national outlets. Marianne was a recipient of the prestigious Image Award for Vision and Excellence (2000) from Women in Film and Video/New England. She continues to offer marketing and publicity services with a specialty in promoting independent cinema, the arts, and the preservation of theaters as cultural flagships of the community. She currently divides her year between the Boston area and Cape Cod, where she enjoys a balanced life of gardening, renovating Cape Cod cottages, and spending time with her partner, family and friends.