The Sundance Film Festival has a new director of programming — and one of the few women and persons of color to hold such a job at a major festival.
Kim Yutani, who has been a senior programmer at Sundance since 2009, will lead the programming staff and report to festival Director John Cooper, the Sundance Institute announced Monday night.
Cooper told Sundance staffers in a memo Monday that “Kim’s curatorial vision combines a voracious appetite for films across genres with a creative instinct for the work that will affect audiences and cultures.