The Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival has a new programming director.
The longest running, all-documentary film festival in North America has tapped Lauren Wissot, a film critic and journalist, for the position. Wissot is the former director of programming at the Santa Fe Independent Film Festival, and is still the festival’s programming consultant. She’s also a member of the Bermuda International Film Festival’s international advisory board and a contributing editor at Filmmaker.
“To be working with a festival that combines an intimate, small town vibe with the cache that comes with being the oldest nonfiction fest in the U.S., not to mention an Academy Award-qualifying festival…I mean, why wouldn’t I be excited?” Wissot said in a news release. “For a programmer, it doesn’t get much better than that. The possibilities are endless.”
The 2014 Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, which is an Academy Award-qualifying festival, is set for Oct. 10-19 at the Arlington Hotel. For more, check out the full report at our sister publication, Arkansas Business.