Bingham Ray

By Roger FriedmanHollywoodNews.com: This is heartbreaking. Bingham Ray, one of the nice guys, a champion of independent film, died today at age 57. He suffered two strokes at Sundance. Bingham guided dozens of indie hits at various studios including his October Films in the 1990s. He worked with the Sundance Institute and the San Francisco Film Society most recently. He also ran United Artists in 2001. To say Bingham was a beloved figure is an understatement. He stood for everything that was...Read Full Story

Bingham Ray, a veteran of the independent film scene, died Monday in Provo, Utah, following complications of a stroke. He was 57. His death was announced by the San Francisco Film Society, where he took over as executive director in November. Ray, who began his career as manager/programmer of the Bleecker Street Cinema in 1981, left his mark on the independent film scene, where he helped bring such movies as Mike Leigh's Secrets & Lies and Lars von Trier's Breaking the Waves to American...Read Full Story

If Bingham Ray’s two-and-a-half-hour memorial at the Paris Theater in Manhattan had been a movie, Ray would have said it was too long. His audience, however, disagreed.Read Full Story

The Bingham Ray memorial in New York last Friday was an extraordinary event. Sure, the Paris Theatre was packed with a generation of people who care deeply about independent film, but it was more than that. (David D'Arcy covered for Indiewire; see videos below.) Bingham Ray represented something to them, perhaps more than they had recognized until he was goneRead Full Story

rrhobbs: #indieWIRE #news: WATCH: David Lynch, Jim Jarmusch and Many Friends Remember Bingham Ray: Last Friday, friends o... http://t.co/T7nsfGEURead Full Story