TALKS & PANELS

March 3, 2022: Panelist, "Holding Documentary Accountable: The True, the False, and Everything Else," Based on a True Story, Murray Center for Documentary Journalism, University of Missouri-Columbia
January 30, 2022: Panelist, "Festival futures — de-construct to re-construct," Dialogues, IFFR Pro
September 26, 2021: Panelist, "Cinema's Workers," NYFF
May 14, 2021: Panelist, "Documentary Studio Trusts" with Brett Story, DOXA
March 14, 2021: Moderator, "On Criticism" with Jemma Desai, Kevin B. Lee, and Vadim Rizov, Distribution Advocates
January 14, 2021: Panelist, "Fair Use: What Do We Need to Know," FilmEx 2021, Film Festival Alliance
September 22, 2020: Panelist, "Outside the Canon," NYFF
September 13, 2020: Moderator, "Questioning Authorship," Open City Documentary Festival
January 23, 2020: Moderator, "Networking Session: Millennials," Art House Convergence, Midway, UT
October 26, 2019: Moderator, "Demystifying Film Criticism," Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, Hot Springs, AR
September 9, 2019: Panelist, “Industry Talks: Rising Voices in Documentary Curation,” Documentary Conference, TIFF, Toronto, ON
August 12, 2019: Talk, "Documentary Diagnostics," FilmHouse DocTalk, SFFILM, San Francisco, CA
September 25, 2018: Panelist, “#DecolonizeDocs: The Industry,” Getting Real, International Documentary Association, Los Angeles, CA
April 24, 2018: Panelist, Southern Producers Lab, New Orleans Film Society, New Orleans, LA
April 11, 2014: Panelist, "Let’s not go there: Personal Narratives, Stories, and Anecdotes," Thinking Its Presence: Race and Creative Writing, University of Montana, Missoula, MT
April 20, 2013: Panelist, "Sounding Place, Placing Sound,"Megapolis Audio Festival, NY, NY

Q&A FACILITATION (just a sample...)

June 24, 2021: Q&A with Meena Nanji, My Sight is Lined with Visions
May 24, 2021: Taming the Garden Q&A with director Salomé Jashi, the DocYard
May 17, 2021: Q&A with Jon Moritsugu, My Sight is Lined with Visions
April 25, 2021: A Radical Empathy Q&A with director Esery Mondesir, the Docyard
April 15, 2021: Q&A with Laurie Wen, My Sight is Lined with Visions
April 14, 2021: Shared Resources Q&A with director Jordan Lord, the Docyard
March 31, 2021: The Choice Q&A with director Gu Xue, the DocYard
March 15, 2021: So Late So Soon Q&A with director Daniel Hymanson and editor Isidore Bethel, the DocYard
March 11, 2021: Q&A with Tran T. Kim-Trang, My Sight is Lined with Visions
March 1, 2021: Downstream to Kinshasa Q&A with director Dieudo Hamadi, the DocYard
February 18, 2021: Q&A with Roddy Bogawa, My Sight is Lined with Visions
February 15, 2021: The American Sector Q&A with directors Courtney Stephens and Pacho Velez, the DocYard
October 29, 2020: The Rifleman Q&A with director Sierra Pettengill and editor Daniel Garber, the DocYard
October 13, 2020: Collective Q&A with director Alexander Nanau, the DocYard
July 8, 2020: Lucia Small Retrospective Q&A with director Lucia Small, the DocYard
April 27, 2020: Crestone Q&A with director Marnie Ellen Hertzler, the DocYard
March 31, 2020: No Data Plan Q&A with director Miko Revereza, the DocYard
February 10, 2020: América Q&A with directors Erick Stoll and Chase Whiteside, the DocYard, Brattle Theatre, Cambridge, MA
December 16, 2019: Present.Perfect Q&A with director Zhu Shengze, the DocYard, Brattle Theatre, Cambridge, MA
June 11, 2018: The Task Q&A with director Leigh Ledare, Sheffield Doc/Fest, Sheffield, UK

MEDIA

February 1, 2022: with Violet Lucca, "Sundance 2022, #4," Film Comment Podcast (Film Comment)
January 25, 2022: with Cassie Da Costa, "Sundance 2022, #1," Film Comment Podcast (Film Comment)
October 22, 2021: "Arkham Asylum London Preview plus: Dark Matters, Sleepy Hollow & Immerse 5th Anniversary," No Proscenium Podcast (No Proscenium)
August 3, 2021: with Steve Macfarlane, "Summer 2021 Rep Report," Film Comment Podcast (Film Comment)
July 2, 2021: "Episode 24 - Abby Sun - 'I Want to Break Free,'" What's Up with Docs Podcast
March 16, 2021: with Jessica Kiang, "Virtual Festivals," Film Comment Podcast (Film Comment)
March 2, 2021: with Ned Hinkle and Alissa Darsa, "Episode 33: New Virtual Cinema & a Conversation with Abby Sun," Brattle Film Podcast
January 27, 2020: "Sundance 2020 #3," Film Comment Podcast (Film Comment)
September 11, 2019: "Toronto 2019 #2," Film Comment Podcast (Film Comment)
April 10, 2019: with Rosa Morales and Sebastian Rea, "New Directors/New Films 2019," Film Comment Podcast (Film Comment)
February 27, 2019: Video feature with Chris Boeckmann, "True/False: What It Takes to Program a Diverse, Inclusive Film Fest," St. Louis Post-Dispatch
February 21, 2019: Interview with Miko Revereza, "Narration with Miko Revereza (NO DATA PLAN)," True/False Podcast (KBIA)
February 7, 2019: with Chris Boeckmann and Amir George, "True/False 2019 Films Preview," True/False Podcast (KBIA)
April 17, 2018: with Mara Gourd Mercado, Tayler Montague, Chris Boeckmann, and Ashley Clark, "True/False 2018," Film Comment Podcast (Film Comment)
February 22, 2018: Interview with RaMell Ross, "Blackness with RaMell Ross (HALE COUNTY, THIS MORNING THIS EVENING)," True/False Podcast (KBIA)
February 15, 2018: with Chris Boeckmann, "True/False 2018 Films Preview," True/False Podcast (KBIA)
February 8, 2018: Interview with Chico Pereira, "Community with Chico Pereira (DONKEYOTE)," True/False Podcast (KBIA)
July 13, 2017: Interview with Carmine Grimaldi, "Collaboration with Carmine Grimaldi," True/False Podcast (KBIA)
May 4, 2017: Interview with Stephanie Spray, "Intentionality of Sound with Stephanie Spray," True/False Podcast (KBIA)

COVERAGE & INTERVIEWS

September 13, 2022: Abbey White, "CNN Films, Points North Institute Announce 2022 American Stories Doc Fellowship Grantees (Exclusive)," Hollywood Reporter
September 13, 2022: Mariana Sanson, "Getting Real '22: The Documentary Surround," Documentary
August 10, 2022: Andrew Tracy, "IDA names 2022 Logan Elevate grantees, keynotes for Getting Real conference," Realscreen
February 1, 2022: Alina Trabattoni, "Festivals are space for new voices, political debate, says Rotterdam panel," Screen
August 5, 2021: Girish Shambu, "People's Platforms: Three Streaming Projects," Film Quarterly Quorum
April 15, 2021: Erin Trahan, "Old, New, And Weird: New Boston Indie Film Company Brings Fresh Energy To Distribution," WBUR's The ARTery
March 8, 2021: Stephen Saito, "Interview: Keisha Knight and Abby Sun on Looking Beyond the Canon in 'My Sight Is Lined With Visions,'" Moveable Fest
January 31, 2021: Kelley Dong, "Video Sundays: Beyond Representation—1990s Asian American Film & Video," MUBI Notebook
September 30, 2020: Devika Girish, "Led By the Imagination," Field Notes
June 18, 2020: Girish Shambu, "Coronavirus and New Forms of Cinematic Event," in media res
May 29, 2020: Herb Shellenberger, "Interview: Abby Sun & Keisha Knight (My Sight is Lined with Visions)," Rep Cinema International
May 26, 2020: Dan Schindel, "How Asian American Representation in Film Has (and Hasn’t) Changed Over the Years," Hyperallergic
March 5, 2019: Mary McNamara, "Column: At True/False Film Festival, documentaries play to a real audience in a real town," Los Angeles Times

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