Coronado Island Film Festival Panelists: State of the Industry Is Scary, So Seize Control

Coronado Island Film Festival Panelists: State of the Industry Is Scary, So Seize Control

Bettina Sherick has spent a lot of time in meetings with Hollywood executives who were, she says, “incentivized to keep the industry the way it is.” In a decades-long career that has spanned several major studios, she remembers hearing many industry insiders dismiss ideas that would soon go on to change everything.  “I sat in rooms where people laughed at Netflix sending out DVDs, and then laughed at them when they started streaming. But what th…