Lisbeth Swinney Kaufman and James Ranta George were married May 25 at the W Loft in Brooklyn. Virginia L. Allen, the groom’s sister, officiated, having become a Universal Life minister for this event.
The bride, 33, will continue to use her name professionally. She is a founder and the chief executive of KitSplit, an online rental company in Brooklyn for cameras and other film and video production equipment. She graduated from Yale and received an M.B.A. from N.Y.U.
She is a daughter of Patricia Swinney Kaufman and S. Lloyd Kaufman Jr. of Manhattan. The bride’s father is a founder and the president of Troma Entertainment, an independent film studio in Long Island City, Queens. He is also a director of the Independent Film and Television Alliance, which is based in Los Angeles. Her mother retired as the executive director of the New York State Governor’s Office for Motion Picture and Television Development in Manhattan, and was also the deputy commissioner of Empire State Development. She is now a director of the Hamptons International Film Festival in East Hampton, N.Y.
Mr. George, also 33, is a founder and the chief executive of Scatter, a company in Brooklyn that provides original virtual reality content as well as software that helps film and video makers produce their own virtual-reality content. In 2018, the company received an Emmy for “Zero Days VR.” The groom is also an adjunct professor in the graduate interactive-telecommunications program at N.Y.U.’s Tisch School of the Arts. He graduated from the University of Washington.
He is the son of Mary Wissink George and Archie A. George of Moscow, Idaho. The groom’s parents both retired from the University of Idaho in Moscow, his mother as a research support scientist in the plant science laboratory and his father as the director for institutional research and assessment. The groom’s father is now is a member of the advisory board of the Palouse Land Trust, a regional conservation organization in Moscow.
The couple met in 2014 at the Tribeca Film Festival, when Ms. Kaufman, turned to the person sitting next to her to share her enthusiasm for the interactive documentary, “Clouds,” that she had just seen. That person was Mr. George, and it was his film.
