Abby Sun

Director of Artist Programs and Editor of Documentary Magazine

Abby Sun (she/her) is IDA's Director of Artist Programs and Editor of Documentary magazine. She is currently researching media policy to support independent documentary filmmaking as a Shorenstein Documentary Film Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School. Before joining IDA, Abby was the Curator of the DocYard and edited MIT Open Documentary Lab's Immerse. She has bylines in Film Comment, Filmmaker, Film Quarterly, Notebook, Sight & Sound, and other publications. Abby has served on festival juries for Hot Docs, Dokufest, Palm Springs, New Orleans, and CAAMfest, as well as nominating committees for the Gotham Awards and Cinema Eye. She has reviewed projects for IDFA Forum, BGDM, NEA, SFFILM, LEF Foundation, Princess Grace Foundation, the Boston Foundation, Sundance Catalyst, and spoken on and facilitated panels at Locarno, IFFR, TIFF, NYFF, EFM, and other film festivals.

Along with Keisha Knight, Abby received a fall 2022 Warhol Foundation Curatorial Research Fellowship. She produced Shared Resources and, with Jordan Lord, received a 2022 American Stories Documentary Fellowship for the upcoming The Voice of Democracy. Abby serves on the board of directors of Mezzanine, a non-profit building audiences for independent films in Los Angeles, and the arts advisory council of the Princess Grace Foundation. Her hometown is Columbia, Missouri, US.