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Carmen and Ian

About Us

After decades in the industry, the two founders who built INDY are leaving the office to lead a journey from the road: every state in the union, at least one hundred cinemas, and the people who keep the lights going down and the screens coming alive.

Who we are

Ian Brown is SVP, Fandango Cinema Solutions. Carmen Brown is SVP, Fandango Partnerships. Together they co-founded INDY and built it as CEO and CFO. Between them they have spent decades sitting across the table from the people who run cinemas, listening to what they need, and building the tools that help them sell a seat and fill a house.

Ian co-leads the tour with a focus on operator listening, product vision and senior commercial relationships. Carmen co-leads it and heads executive partnerships, senior engagement and partner coordination. On the road, they are simply two people in a car with a camera, a long list of cinemas, and a genuine affection for every one of them.

Why we are driving

Every cinema is more than a building. It is the final stage of filmmaking, where the director's vision completes its journey and reaches the audience. The care given to presentation, sound, projection, service and atmosphere decides how that vision is finally experienced. When the lights go down and the screen comes alive, an audience laughs, gasps and feels together.

You cannot celebrate that from an office. So we are starting in Key West and traveling through every U.S. state, completing at least one hundred cinema visits, an average of two per state across the full route, before the main journey ends at CinemaCon in Las Vegas. From historic single-screen venues and art houses to family circuits, dine-in cinemas, regional operators and major chains, every kind of cinema deserves its moment in the spotlight.

The journey will also celebrate America itself. From coastlines and small towns to great cities and national parks, it will capture the extraordinary variety of the country and reveal the experience that connects it. Wherever we come from, we still gather in the dark, look towards the same screen and feel something together.

What happens at every stop

  • We listen. Interviews at every stop. Everyone we visit is invited to tell their story, in their own words, in their own building.
  • We film. A camera travels with us as often as possible. Weekly stories and sound bites let the industry follow the celebration in real time on The Feed.
  • We bring the crew. A professional crew joins at six anchor locations for six professionally filmed chapters.
  • We go to the source. Four days in Los Angeles include interviews on the studio lot, bringing studio and filmmaker voices into the story and connecting their original creative intent directly to the cinemas that protect and complete it.

Where it ends

The main journey ends at CinemaCon in Las Vegas, where the stories build towards one hero film and a lasting library of voices, insights and human moments to share throughout the year.

Open a door

This is a celebration the whole industry can see itself in and be proud to share.

  • Open a door. If we are coming through your town, let us in.
  • Nominate a cinema. Tell us about the one we must not miss.
  • Introduce a voice. The projectionist, the owner, the usher who has been there forty years. We want to hear them.

Find the road team, follow the map, and see every stop.

At least 100 cinemas. 50 states. Eight months. One celebration. We are Fandango1.