EXCLUSIVE: Patrick Harrison, a longtime and well-known government for the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences in New York, is shifting on to a newly created place with Frank PR. He’s becoming a member of principals Clare Anne Darragh and Lina Catalfamo Plath to develop a “strategic awards division,” with plans to additional have interaction the corporate within the ever-growing and profitable enterprise of campaigns and occasions focused to the trade’s award seasons.
For the previous 20 years Harrison had been a a lot liked determine among the many 1000-plus East Coast-based members of AMPAS, having been their key connection to Academy packages there. In his new job, he’ll stay concerned closely in Oscar season, simply from the opposite facet of the fence because it had been.
“I’m excited to hitch the Frank PR household in partnership with Clare Anne and Lina, two trade professionals I’ve revered, admired, and labored alongside all through my profession,” he mentioned. “Persevering with my love of movie and supporting the work of established and upcoming filmmakers are passions of mine.”
“Patrick is a proficient and extremely revered government whose ardour for our trade and distinctive relationships make him the proper associate to construct this division. We have had the privilege to work alongside him all through our careers and stay up for creating this new enterprise collectively,” Darragh and Catalfamo Plath mentioned.
Harrison has been an advocate of advancing the careers of future filmmakers by connecting veteran filmmakers to younger artists nationally on school campuses from Hawaii to Appalachia and internationally in Africa. He at present serves on the board of administrators of Movie at Lincoln Heart and the Woodstock Movie Competition and serves in an advisory function at Stockade Works within the Hudson Valley.
Within the mid-Nineties, Harrison labored at Miramax supporting the movie and award campaigns for a number of Oscar-winning movies. Earlier than that, he had labored at AMPAS as a staffer starting in 1991.
After his stint at Miramax he returned to AMPAS’ New York operation in 2001 when he served as Director NY Packages and Membership. He definitely brings his personal distinctive perspective to the awards panorama, having overseen the creation and implementation of all Academy packages on the East Coast together with weekly membership screenings and filmmaker conversations, movie retrospectives, tributes, nationwide academic outreach initiatives and the annual Oscar Night time New York celebrations.
Collaborating together with his world AMPAS colleagues, studio executives and members from each department of the Academy, Harrison produced the Academy Conversations movie collection and moderated post-screening conversations with key creators.
In July 2022, Harrison was promoted to VP Member Relations and World Outreach, however later that 12 months took a go away of absence, reportedly for private household causes. In a March 24 e mail to East Coast members, AMPAS president Janet Yang and CEO Invoice Kramer up to date them saying Harrison had left the Academy and thanked him for his lengthy service.
Frank PR was launched in 2008 by Darragh and Catalfamo Plath, who’ve over 25 years expertise and beforehand held posts at New Line Cinema, Miramax, High-quality Line Options and October Movies. Current movie initiatives embrace John Wick: Chapter 4, Mafia Mamma, Someplace In Queens, Being Mary Tyler Moore, You Individuals and extra. They work with filmmakers together with Oscar winner Roger Ross Williams and Lisa Cortés; actor John Turturro; producers Mark Burnett and Roma Downey; and manufacturing corporations Flynn Photos, Davis Leisure, ShivHans Photos, Assemble Media and Crimson Crown Productions amongst others.
