Christian Blauvelt

Christian Blauvelt is the Digital Director of IndieWire, involved in running all site operations from the Product side to Editorial, where he top edits the News team, which is composed of his hires.

The site’s overall health is Blauvelt’s responsibility, and he manages staffers on both coasts, while overseeing editorial standards, traffic targets, and other key metrics. He is also the primary editorial supervisor of sponsorship deliverables not being steered by IndieWire’s Special Projects team, and he manages the rollout of sponsored editorial from Sundance, the site’s own live media, and other partnership initiatives, as well as managing the freelance budget. He has moderated discussions at IndieWire’s Consider This Brunch event and is a regular interviewer of filmmakers and their casts at the IndieWire Studio, building off years of experience as a moderator of post-screening Q&As for BAFTA and SAG-AFTRA and as host of panels at SXSW and San Diego Comic-Con.

He is based in the Tampa Bay area, where he was born and raised, having returned after 12 years in New York City. He's the author of books including