Abby Sun | Director of Programs | International Documentary Association | USA

Abby Sun is IDA's Director of Programs and Editor of Documentary magazine. Before joining IDA, Abby was the Curator of the DocYard and edited MIT Open Documentary Lab's Immerse. Her writing has appeared in Film Comment, Filmmaker, Film Quarterly, Notebook, Sight & Sound, and other publications.

In fall 2024, Abby researched media policy to support independent documentary filmmaking as a Shorenstein Documentary Film Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School. Abby was previously a fall 2022 Warhol Foundation Curatorial Research Fellow.

She produced Shared Resources (2021) and with Jordan Lord received a 2022 American Stories Documentary Fellowship for the upcoming The Voice of Democracy.

Abby serves on the founding board of the Future Film Coalition, a research and policy hub for independent film in the U.S.; board of directors for Mezzanine, a non-profit building audiences for independent films in Los Angeles; and the arts advisory council of the Princess Grace Foundation.

International Documentary Association

International Documentary Association (IDA) supports the vital work of documentary storytellers and champions a thriving and inclusive documentary culture.

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