Steven Gaydos, Variety’s Executive Editor, Features, will be giving the keynote speech on Sunday at UBC2C.
Gaydos is responsible for over 250 editorial reports a year in both Daily and Weekly Variety, producing territorial surveys, film and TV market and festival reports, genre studies as well as business-oriented personality and corporate profiles.
An editor with Variety since 1994, Gaydos created and directs the “10 to Watch” program for Variety. From 2000-2005, Gaydos was international managing director of Variety, based in London and tasked with directing Variety’s editorial operations overseas.In 2005, Gaydos returned to Los Angeles and began directing the features department.
Gaydos is a member of the Writers Guild of America, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts and the European Film Academy. Prior to joining Variety, Gaydos worked in Hollywood and Europe as a screenwriter.


















