As much of the film industry prepares for Cannes, the Sundance Film Festival has some big news of its own: Longtime senior programmer Kim Yutani has been named director of programming for the festival, replacing Trevor Groth, who exited the position earlier this year.Yutani was previously a senior programmer for the festival, and has worked at Sundance since 2006, and previously served as the artistic director and director of programming at Outfest Los Angeles.In a memo distributed to the festival’s staff, Sundance director John Cooper celebrated Yutani’s “voracious appetite for films across genres with a creative instinct for the work that will affect audiences and culture.” He added that she will “now helm an incredibly talented team of curators and programmers, and I predict that our Festival slates will further deepen and broaden the reach of independent artists and stories in fiction and nonfiction.”In a statement provided by festival,
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