Eugene Hernandez
The Sundance Institute has selected Eugene Hernandez as Sundance Film Festival director and head of public programming. Hernandez has spent much of his 25 year career leading and advising nonprofit arts organizations and is a leader in the film and media industry. He has been connected to the institute since the early days of his career, attending the festival in the mid-1990s to build Indiewire, an online community for independent film. Hernandez will join Sundance in November from Film at Lincoln Center, where he has spent the past 12 years, currently as senior vice president of FLC, executive director of the New York Film Festival, and publisher of Film Comment. He will be based in New York and Los Angeles offices while also working in Sundance’s Park City office.
