Entire Programming Team at U.K.’s Sheffield Doc/Fest Is Ousted, as Commercial and Artistic Values Clash

Commercial and Artistic Values Clash at U.K.’s Sheffield Doc/Fest as Entire Programming Team is Ousted

On Friday, in an emotional statement, the festival’s group of seven programmers — Juliano Gomes, Qila Gill, Carlos Pereira, Christopher Small, Rabz Lansiquot, Soukaina Aboulaoula and Herb Shellenberger — spoke out about an ugly clash between the festival’s board of trustees and its outlook for the event, and the artistic team and their curatorial vision.

Highlighting a lengthy list of efforts made by the group, under Gil, to diversify the festival and make it more international and inclusive — in essence, providing a platform for unrepresented, emerging talent over the more seasoned and high-profile names of the documentary world — the Doc/Fest programmers suggest their work has been undermined due to its incongruity with the board’s more commercial tastes.

The programming team’s public grievances aren’t the first time Doc/Fest has encountered blowback from former staff., the festival’s well-respected director of programming, quit the event. The former Doc Society executive, who was more of a behind-the-scenes personality, issued a charged statement, claiming he left “out of frustration with a pressure to screen U.K.

Last week, it was announced to the press that Cíntia “had left her position” at the festival due to “artistic differences over the present and future direction of the Festival with the Board of Trustees”. Many of the films premiered at Sheffield have subsequently gone on to be selected and screened at other international festivals, continuing the legacy of this programme.

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