
Eugene Hernandez (born October 8, 1968) is an American journalist and non-profit executive, serving as the director of the
Sundance Film Festival
The Sundance Film Festival is an annual film festival organized by the Sundance Institute. It is the largest independent film festival in the United States, with 423,234 combined in-person and online viewership in 2023.
The festival has acted ...
. He is a co-founder of the online entertainment publication
IndieWire and served as its editor in chief until 2010. Hernandez served as the Director of the
New York Film Festival
The New York Film Festival (NYFF) is a film festival held every fall in New York City, presented by Film at Lincoln Center. Founded in 1963 by Richard Roud and Amos Vogel with the support of Lincoln Center president William Schuman, NYFF i ...
,
Deputy Executive Director of
Film at Lincoln Center
Film at Lincoln Center (FLC), previously known as the Film Society of Lincoln Center (FSLC) until 2019,Aridi, Sara (April 28, 2019).. ''The New York Times''. nytimes.com. Retrieved April 29, 2019. is a nonprofit organization based in New York Cit ...
(previously known as the Film Society of Lincoln Center) and Publisher of
Film Comment
''Film Comment'' is the official publication of Film at Lincoln Center. It features reviews and analysis of mainstream, art-house, and avant-garde filmmaking from around the world. Founded in 1962 and originally released as a quarterly, ''Film ...
until 2022. In 2015 Hernandez was selected as a juror at the annual Sundance Film Festival. He was named Sundance's festival director in 2022; the 2024 edition of the festival was the first under his watch.
In 2014 he was named to the OUT 100
list as one of the top 100 influential people in
LGBT
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community.
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Instagram
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American male journalists
Living people
1968 births
American LGBTQ journalists
20th-century American journalists
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