After falling in love with film while living in Paris on a student visa, Connie returned to Massachusetts and applied for a job at Harvard Square’s historic Brattle Theatre. Over the next three decades, she operated theaters, launched film festivals, worked in distribution, and finally settled into film buying. Her longtime clients include the Coolidge Corner Theatre, the Salt Lake Film Society, Omaha’s Film Streams, Tucson’s Loft Cinema, and the Amherst Cinema in her hometown, Amherst, MA.

A founding member of the Art House Convergence, and a consultant to the Sundance Institute’s Creative Distribution Initiative, Connie stays abreast of all things germane to independent cinema exhibition, and above all, remains an advocate for bringing people together through film.