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Harry Vaughn

Program Consultant

Harry Vaughn is a producer with colleague Sigrid Dyekjær at her production company Real Lava. His credits include Talal Derki and Heba Khaled’s Under the Sky of Damascus (Berlinale, 2023), Olivier Sarbil’s Viktor (TIFF, 2024) , Connie Field’s Democracy Noir (CPH:DOX 2024) and Agnieszka Zwiefka’s Silent Trees (Hot Docs, 2024). He is also program consultant for Jewish Story Partners (A Still Small Voice, Last Flight Home) and previously headed acquisitions at sales agency Cinephil (A House Made of Splinters, Red Herring). From 2014 to 2021, he was documentary programmer for the Sundance Film Festival and later its Senior Programmer. He has advised on juries and labs around the world, including at Dok Incubator, Sarajevo Film Festival, Hot Docs Forum, IDA, Cinema Eye Honors and the El Gouna platform in Egypt.