After launching simply two months in the past with a splash from Berlin, upstart distributor 1-2 Particular has made two key hires, each of whom are former business veterans from MUBI.
Amanda Trokan and Nico Chapin have joined 1-2 Particular to bolster the distributor’s presence forward of Cannes. Trokan will function Senior Vice President of Acquisitions, and Chapin can be Vice President of Publicity.
Former Sideshow govt Jason Hellerstein based the corporate and needs to accumulate and launch movies from top-tier home and worldwide festivals. The primary characteristic it acquired and plans to launch is Radu Jude’s “Kontinental ’25,” which made its premiere on the 2025 Berlin Worldwide Movie Pageant and gained the screenplay prize.
The workforce may have a robust presence in Cannes as they appear to strategically develop the present slate.
Trokan led the North American programming workforce at MUBI, overseeing platform curation and licensing and negotiating a slate of exclusives from filmmakers like Hirokazu Kore-eda, Quentin Dupieux, Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Alex Ross Perry, Rebecca Zlotowski, Albert Serra, Tyler Taormina, Martín Rejtman, Vera Drew, Alonso Ruizpalacios, Radu Jude, and others. Previous to that, Trokan spent over a decade at HBO, together with eight years as an govt on the movie acquisitions workforce, and she or he helped deliver movies like “Drive My Automobile” to Max, in addition to the A24 library. She started her profession at Movie at Lincoln Heart.
Chapin has 9 years of expertise in advertising and PR and most just lately helped launch Metrograph Footage, serving to to supervise the discharge of India Donaldson’s award-nominated “Good One.” He beforehand held roles at each MUBI and Cinetic Media and contributed to campaigns for “One other Spherical,” “First Cow,” and “Portrait of a Woman on Hearth.” Throughout his time at MUBI, he led the U.S. launch and awards campaigns for Park Chan-wook’s “Resolution to Go away,” Ira Sachs’ “Passages,” and Aki Kaurismäki’s “Fallen Leaves.”