Caleb Ward Named Freestyle Digital Media Acquisitions Director

Entertainment Studios has hired Caleb Ward as director of acquisitions for Freestyle Digital Media, the digital content distribution unit of its feature film distribution company Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures, effective immediately.

Ward reports directly to Chris Charalambous, head of acquisitions for Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures and Freestyle Digital Media.

He will oversee acquisitions for Freestyle Digital Media, targeting both theatrical releases and hundreds of direct-to-VOD titles annually. Ward will also oversee the company’s film festival and market coverage program.

Freestyle Digital Media supplies commercial feature film and television content directly to all global digital platforms, including Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, Dish, ATT U-verse, iNDEMAND, Redbox, Vubiquity, GooglePlay and many others.

Ward graduated from University of North Carolina Wilmington in 2014 after directing his first feature film, Children of Salt. He then worked for the Denver Film Society running the Young Filmmakers Workshop and programming for several film festivals including SeriesFest.

In 2017, Ward moved to Los Angeles and began working as the marketing, theatrical, and digital sales coordinator for Gravitas Ventures. His most recent position was working for The Orchard/1091 as a film acquisitions coordinator.