Cinda Holt is the business development specialist for the Montana Arts Council and the program director for the agency's Leadership Institute and Building Arts Participation programs. She is also the president and founder of the Montana Five Rivers Festival of Film based in Missoula, Montana as well as an independent consultant. Prior to joining the arts council staff, Cinda served for five years as the development director for Missoula Children's Theatre/MCT Center for the Performing Arts, nearly ten years at the Sundance Institute for Film and Television as the managing director of the Sundance Film Festival and as the administrative director of the Institute's film, music and dance laboratories. Cinda also worked as the managing director of Maurice Sendak's The Night Kitchen, a national touring children's theatre based in New York City. Cinda is a site evaluator for the National Endowment for the Arts Dance Program and has served as a panel member for the NEA's Dance program and Media program, as well as Montana's Cultural Trust Grants program.