Ragtag Cinema and the True/False Film Fest both have new film programmers, the Ragtag Film Society announced Friday. Jeanelle Augustin is the festival’s newest member of the programming team. She is a Haitian-American arts critic and film programmer, and previously worked at the Sundance Institute as the coordinator for the Documentary Film Program and New Frontier Lab Programs. She joins Amir George, who started programming for the the festival in 2018, and Chris Boeckmann, the leader programming team and the society’s director of programming.
“Amir and I are thrilled to be programming with Jeanelle,” Boeckmann said in a news release. “She possesses a deep knowledge of and appreciation for the medium.”
Ted Rogers, a projectionist since 2018, will take the job of film programmer at the cinema. He is replacing Boeckmann, who has been Ragtag’s head programmer since May 2017.
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