Patricia Finneran is moving on from Silverdocs to head up the New York presence of the Sundance Documentary Program effective November 1. From the press release, she replaces Bruni Burres. I’m curiously out of the loop on that one - I’ve never heard of Bruni working with Sundance, but evidently she is moving on to more human rights work. Finneran’s work will include, “… Representing the Sundance Documentary Program internationally, [and] Finneran will be responsible for recommending film projects, maintaining the Documentary Program’s New York base and working on the Program’s initiatives such as the Sundance Doc Fund and the Skoll Foundation’s Stories of Change: Social Entrepreneurship in Focus Through Documentary.”

This is the second high-profile departure from AFI’s family of festivals in fairly short order, with executive director Christian Gaines leaving AFI Fest in Los Angeles for a position at Withoutabox.com. Who will take over Silverdocs? I’m on the edge of my seat. Nominations?