Haynes is a Senior International Programmer for HotDocs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival, with a special focus on Mexican and Latin American film. She is also an International Programmer for imagineNATIVE Film + Media Festival, the world’s largest presenter of indigenous screen content. She serves on the advisory committee for EstDocs Film Festival, the largest Estonian cultural event outside of Estonia. Haynes has produced three award-winning feature documentaries: Wetback: The Undocumented Documentary, Super Amigos, and City Idol, which screened internationally. She was the 2014 Guest Curator for aluCine Latin Film + Media Arts Festival, where she presented Blood Relations, a program focusing on Mexican short documentary and narrative works. She has also served on numerous national and international film and artistic juries.