Sky Sitney

FESTIVAL DIRECTOR

Sky Sitney is the Festival Director for SILVERDOCS, leading the Festival's programming, strategic development, partnerships and overall artistic vision. She joined the Festival in Fall 2005 as Director of Programming, and is recognized as one of the key contributors in helping SILVERDOCS become one of the leading Festivals of its kind.

Sitney was formerly Programming Director at The Newport International Film Festival, and also served as the Film Programmer at the New York Underground Film Festival and is Co-Founder and Curator of the on-going series, Fresh Film at the Anthology Film Archives in New York City. Sitney has also held industry positions at C-Hundred Film Corp. and Fine Line Features.

In addition to her extensive programming experience, Sitney is a doctoral candidate in Cinema Studies at New York University, where she has taught film courses on a variety of genres. She is completing a dissertation on the subject of documentary film, a section of which has been recently published in the journal Grey Room and the book Captured: A Lower East Side Film & Video History.