Kim Kalyka has extensive experience in the film distribution industry, with roles at various companies throughout their career. Kim started as the Director of Marketing and Promotions at Angelika Film Centers / City Cinemas in 1994, where they worked until 2001. Kim then joined Miramax Films as the Manager of Exhibitor Relations from 2001 to 2002. After that, they worked as a Consultant for Exhibitor Relations and Booking at Manhattan Pictures in 2002. Following this, they moved to IFC Films - AMC Networks, where they served as the Director of Exhibitor Relations / In Theatre Marketing and Distribution from 2002 to 2016. Currently, they are working as the Head of National Exhibitor Relations and In Theatre Marketing at NEON since 2017. Throughout their career, they have overseen marketing campaigns, negotiated distribution rates, and managed logistics with various vendors and providers in the film industry.
Kim Kalyka holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) degree in Film and Television Production from New York University. The specific dates of their education are not provided.
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In just five years, NEON has garnered 25 Academy Award® nominations, 5 wins, including Best Picture, and has grossed over $200M at the box office. The company continues to push boundaries and take creative risks on bold cinema such as Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite, which made history winning four Academy Awards, becoming the first non-English-language film to claim Best Picture, unanimously winning the Palme d’Or at Cannes, and grossing over $54M at the domestic box office. The NEON slate includes the Oscar-nominated documentaries All the Beauty and the Bloodshed and Fire of Love; 2022’s highest grossing documentary, Moonage Daydream, Brett Morgan’s genre-defying film chronicling the career of David Bowie; Kore-eda’s Broker, starring Cannes Best Actor winner Song Kang Ho (Parasite); and three-time Academy Award® nominee Ruben Östlund’s Triangle of Sadness, NEON’s third consecutive Palme d’Or winner. NEON has amassed a library of over 80 films, with noteworthy releases including: Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria, starring Tilda Swinton, with a successful and unprecedented “in theatres only… forever” release; Flee, which made history becoming the first film to score an impressive trifecta of Oscar® nominations; The Worst Person in The World, which was nominated for Original Screenplay and International Feature Film; Spencer, which earned Kristen Stewart an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress; the record-breaking Honeyland, which is the first non-fiction feature to land Academy Award® nominations for Best Documentary and Best International Feature Film in the same year; Julia Ducournau’s Palme d’Or winner, Titane; and Craig Gillespie’s I, Tonya, which garnered multiple Academy Award® nominations, one win for Allison Janney and amassed over $30M in domestic box office.
