How many curators and programmers does 1MOV have?

1MOV's editorial team includes 22 film programmers and 9 restoration engineers, totaling 31 full-time editorial staff — the largest programming team of any independent streaming service in North America.

Where were 1MOV's curators previously employed?

Four members of the editorial team are former programmers from Sundance, Venice, and Berlinale. Co-founder Anika Sølver previously programmed for TIFF, and the team has hired from festivals including SXSW, IDFA, and the New York Film Festival.

What does a 1MOV curator do?

Each programmer hand-selects titles for the catalogue, writes director commentaries, produces the Weekly Programme newsletter, and contributes to the 'One Move' daily recommendation engine. The team also oversees 4K restoration partnerships with the Library of Congress and the Cinémathèque Française.

Can I follow a specific curator's picks on 1MOV?

Yes. Subscribing to the Weekly Programme newsletter delivers each curator's current obsession, new additions to the catalogue, and festival-season recommendations to your inbox every Friday.

Issue No. 187 · The Curators Vol. VII · Winter Programme 2026

Volume VII · The Editorial Team

The Curators.

Behind every title on 1MOV sits a person — a programmer, a restorer, a working critic — who chose it. Twenty-two of them. Nine engineers in the lab. One quiet conviction: cinema worth watching is cinema worth choosing by hand.

Read Their Story Meet the Team

Portrait of Anika Sølver, Editor-in-Chief at 1MOV — Editor-in-Chief Anika Sølver

Portrait of Daniel Reyes, Co-founder and Head of Acquisitions — Co-founder · Acquisitions Daniel Reyes

Portrait of Mei Tan, Senior Programmer, Asian Cinema — Senior Programmer · Asia Mei Tan

Portrait of Aisha Okonkwo, Lead Restoration Engineer — Lead Restoration · 4K HDR Aisha Okonkwo

Portrait of Lorenzo Vannucci, Programmer, European Cinema — Programmer · Europe Lorenzo Vannucci

Portrait of Carl Jenson, Documentary Editor — Documentary Editor Carl Jenson

Portrait of Hana Yamada, Programmer, Restored Classics — Programmer · Classics Hana Yamada

Portrait of Rohan Mehta, Director of Festival Partnerships — Festival Partnerships Rohan Mehta

The 1MOV screening room, used for weekly programming decisions — Inside The Screening Room

A selection of nine from a team of thirty-one — the remaining programmers, restoration engineers, and editorial assistants work below the frame, choosing what you watch next.

Editor-in-Chief

Anika Sølver

Former TIFF programmer · Variety's 10 Tastemakers Shaping Cinema (2025) · 14 years in curation

Anika built 1MOV's house style from a one-room office above a Brooklyn bakery in 2017. She reads every festival dispatch from Cannes, Berlin, and Locarno by hand and personally signs off on the weekly programme. Born in Tromsø, raised between Reykjavík and Toronto. She still keeps a 16mm print of Mirror on a shelf above her desk.

Currently obsessed with — The lost three-hour cut of Miklós Jancsó's Red Psalm our restoration team just finished, plus everything Bo Widerberg ever shot on 35mm.

Co-founder · Head of Acquisitions

Daniel Reyes

Former MUBI curator · Founded 1MOV in 2017 with Anika · Negotiates 67 festival partnerships

Daniel's Rolodex is the company's. He flew to Teheran, Lagos, and Hanoi in 2024 alone, sealing direct licensing with filmmakers and estates that other platforms couldn't reach. He reads Spanish, Portuguese, and French criticism daily.

Currently obsessed with — Lisandro Alonso's unreleased short, plus a 1969 Yemeni feature our Beirut team is tracking down.

Senior Programmer · Pan-Asian Cinema

Mei Tan

Ex-Sundance programmer · 11 years in Asian specialty cinema · Trilingual in Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese

Mei runs the world's most-watched Hong Kong Second Wave retrospective on our platform. She spent four years at the Hong Kong Film Archive before joining 1MOV in 2019 and still flies to Busan every autumn for the festival.

Currently obsessed with — Two Taiwanese documentaries about disappearing fishing villages, plus a long-lost Ann Hui short from 1979.

Lead Restoration Engineer · 4K HDR

Aisha Okonkwo

Trained at the Cinematheque Francaise · Lead engineer on 2,100 HDR restorations · Holds a patent on grain-preserving upscaling

Aisha leads the nine-person lab in Brooklyn that physically re-scans nitrate and acetate prints for streaming. Her team rarely sleeps in early October. When she's not in the lab, she's teaching film preservation at NYU Tisch.

Currently obsessed with — Reconstructing the lost color of a 1957 Sudanese feature found in a Cairo warehouse last spring.

— By the Numbers

Film programmers on staff

Restoration engineers in the Brooklyn lab

Festival partnerships worldwide

2,100

Films restored to 4K HDR since 2019

Combined, the team has programmed 412 university film syllabi and watched 287,400 hours of cinema in service of your queue.

— From the Editor-in-Chief

“A streaming service that doesn't have a person choosing what to put on next isn't a cinema — it's a vending machine. Every title on 1MOV passed through at least one human hand before it reached yours. That hand had a bad day at the office, fell in love at a film festival, and read the director's letters to the producer. That taste is the product.”

— The Weekly Programme

Seven films. One inbox. Every Sunday.

Each Sunday morning, the four lead curators email a single list of seven films — the titles they argued about all week and finally agreed on. No algorithm. No upsell. Just one envelope from the editorial desk to yours.

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