Irene Soriano

Film Programmer at Sundance Institute

Irene Soriano is a Los Angeles-based writer, film curator, and festival programmer. She programs short films for the Sundance Film Festival and has also programmed for the Outfest Fusion QTBIPOC Film Festival and AFI Film Fest. Irene was Film Independent/Project Involve's first Fellow to initiate a Film Programming Industry Track in 2003. In 2022, Irene moderated an industry podcast about diversity, equity, and inclusion in the film programming space for DOC Leipzig with the Programmers of Colour Collective and curated an art and film exhibition for Outfest’s LGBTQ+ arts and virtual media OUTMUSEUM titled “The Filipinx Edition: Queer and Trans Visions from Women and Non-Binary Artists.” She will curate the "Creative Recovery LA"-funded community screening series "I SEE YOU" Queer Filipinx Short Films in 2024, a new program dedicated to community building and exploring the rich and diverse LBGTQ narratives within Filipinx storytelling through short films.