Doug Jones, Veteran Indie Film Programmer, Dies at 53
variety.comCaroline Brew editor Doug Jones, a veteran film programmer, curator and exhibitor at several U.S. film festivals, has died.
He was 53. Jones most recently worked as a consulting programmer for the South by Southwest Film and TV Festival, as well as a programmer for the Vidiots Foundation, a relaunched Los Angeles nonprofit video store and cinema.
The Vidiots Foundation confirmed his death in an Instagram post: “It breaks our hearts to share that we have lost the great and wonderful Doug Jones, a beloved and indispensable member of the Vidiots family and a cornerstone of the global film programming community.” From 2014 to 2022, he served as executive director of Images Cinema, a single screen nonprofit art house, in Williamstown, Mass.
He worked with the Los Angeles Film Festival and Film Independent for 12 years beginning in 2002, specializing in finding new independent filmmakers and producing large-scale film events, and became associate director of programming in 2009.
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