Sky Sitney, longtime festival director of AFI Docs (formerly Silverdocs), steps down.

Longtime AFI Docs festival director Sky Sitney is leaving the festival, the American Film Institute announced Friday. Sitney, who started with the documentary festival eight years ago, when it was known as Silverdocs, resigned two weeks ago. She will continue to serve as AFI Docs director through Feb. 28. Her departure comes on the heels of Silverdocs losing its major sponsor, the Discovery Channel, and AFI subsequently changing the name of the festival, moving most of its programming from Silve...