Abby Sun is IDA's Director of Programs and Editor of Documentary magazine. Before joining IDA, she was Curator of the DocYard and edited MIT Open Documentary Lab's Immerse. She has written for Film Comment, Filmmaker, Film Quarterly, Notebook, Sight & Sound. Abby has served on juries for Hot Docs, Dokufest, Palm Springs, New Orleans, and CAAMfest, and 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 others. Abby researched media policy to support independent documentary filmmaking as a Shorenstein Documentary Film Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School, and was a 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 independent film research and policy hub Future Film Coalition; the board of Los Angeles non-profit Mezzanine; and the arts advisory council of the Princess Grace Foundation.