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Sundance Film Festival Director Tabitha Jackson to Exit, Kim Yutani to Join Senior Leadership Team

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Tabitha Jackson, the director of the Sundance Film Festival and Public Programming, will exit from her role at the Sundance Institute, the non-profit’s CEO Joana Vicente announced Tuesday, while also elevating Kim Yutani to a senior leadership role.

Jackson was named director of the Sundance Film Festival in 2020 and has been with the Institute since 2013, and she will depart shortly after the upcoming Sundance Film Festival: London, which takes place later this week.

Yutani, the festival’s director of programming, will now join the Sundance Institute senior leadership team and for the interim lead the development and planning of the festival.

Vicente is now leading a public search for the festival’s next director. Yutani, who joined the festival in 2006 and has led programming for five years, will also now manage festival industry and artist relations.

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