MUMBAI: Former IFC Entertainment executive Courtney Ott has been appointed as director of marketing and PR for the Film Society of Lincoln Center.

Ott will head the team that will work on behalf of the Film Society of Lincoln Center‘s programmes, film festivals, theatres, educational outreach and community involvement. Immediately, the Ott will focus on the transition from a single-screen to a multi screen programming strategy with the opening of the Elinor Bunin Monroe Film Center next summer.

Ott worked as vp publicity at IFC Entertainment, where she oversaw publicity of the company‘s theatrical and VOD releases that include Summer Hours, In the Loop, Gomorrah and Joan Rivers -- A Piece of Work.