Kim Yutani

Director of Programming at Sundance Film Festival

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Park City, UT, USA
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Kim Yutani Biography

Kim Yutani is Director of Programming at Sundance Film Festival. In her role, she will lead the festival’s curation of film, media and off-screen programming at the winter festival in Park City, Utah, as well as other year-round events supporting indie storytellers and their films. Previously, she served as director of programming.

Yutani began programming short films at the Sundance Film Festival in 2006. In 2009, she became a feature film programmer, focusing on US and international fiction feature films, overseeing short film programming, and working on the Festival’s Offscreen series of panels and conversations. She was instrumental in the creation of Sundance Film Festival: Hong Kong, which she also programs. During her tenure at the Institute, she has represented Sundance internationally by serving on juries, speaking on panels, and working to cultivate relationships with film commissions, industry, and artists around the world. For the past five years, she has also overseen a new collaboration with the Berlinale’s European Film Market -- housed within the Sundance Film Festival at EFM program -- which has provided exposure and sales opportunities for Sundance films, immediately after premiering at the Festival.

She started her programming career at Outfest Los Angeles, one of the world’s leading LGBT festivals, where she was the Artistic Director and the Director of Programming. She is currently a programming consultant for the Provincetown International Film Festival. She has been a reader for Creative Capital and is on the short film nominating committee for Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking. Prior to her film festival work, Yutani was a film critic and freelance journalist focusing on independent film. She got her start in the industry as director Gregg Araki’s assistant. She was recently named an A100 Honoree on Gold House’s list of the most influential Asian Americans in culture.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 07/17/2024.

Kim Yutani Videos

  • Kim Yutani Interview Sundance London 2019
    Kim Yutani Interview Sundance London 2019 Subscribe to Red Carpet News: http://bit.ly/1s3BQ54 Red Carpet News TV talks to directors and stars...
  • Sundance 2019 Lineup Reveal Livestream
    See which films will be premiering at the festival and get instant analysis from festival director John Cooper and programming director Kim Yutani.
  • IN THE CAN: Kim Yutani & Todd Luoto
    Sundance shorts programmers talk with Jeff Hanson on IN THE CAN.

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