Former London Film Festival head Clare Stewart steps in after former CEO Cynthia Gil stepped down in August.
Alongside the new appointments, the festival has also opened the search for new senior programmer to work with Stewart on the overall selection.
“Sheffield DocFest is renowned as a potent, innovative and fun feature festival that brings together works of great urgency and creativity,” said Stewart. “It is a privilege to have the opportunity to build on the legacy of past leadership and to work with the Board of Trustees and the dedicated Sheffield DocFest team at a time when the landscape for festivals, documentary makers and audiences is shifting so radically.
In mid-August, it was revealed that Cynthia Gil had stepped down as Sheffield DocFest CEO, the second major exit within just over a week after deputy director and long-time staffer Melanie Iredale left to lead the Birds’ Eye View festival. The official festival statement was that Gil’s departure was “as a result of artistic differences over the present and future direction of the Festival with the Board of Trustees,” but just days later programmers Juliano Gomes, Qila Gill, Carlos Pereira, Christopher Small, Rabz Lansiquot, Soukaina Aboulaoula and Herb Shellenberger – who all worked on the festival’s 2020 and 2021 editions – wrote an open letter claiming they were “silently locked out of our email accounts and all traces of our...
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