Abby Sun (she/her) is IDA's Director of Artist Programs and Editor of Documentary magazine. She is currently researching policy recommendations 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.