Harry Vaughn

Harry Vaughn is a producer at Real Lava. His credits include 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 the grant programmer for Jewish Story Partners (“A Still Small Voice”, “Last Flight Home”) and previously headed acquisitions at international sales agency Cinephil (“A House Made of Splinters”, “Flee”). From 2014 to 2021, he was documentary programmer for the Sundance Film Festival and later its Senior Programmer, selecting projects for US and World Competition, as well as Premieres and Spotlight, in both feature documentary and fiction categories. He programmed for Outfest Los Angeles and Frameline: San Francisco’s LGBTQ film festival and has advised on juries and labs around the world, including Dok Incubator, Sarajevo Film Festival, Hot Docs Forum, Doc Society, Nordisk Panorama, the IDA Awards and Cinema Eye Honors.