As of 2023, she is the programming director of the Festival International du Film de Biarritz — Nouvelles Vagues.

From 2005 to 2009 she was a programmer for the French Academy in Rome – Villa Médicis,[3] she was deputy artistic director for Cinéma du réel International Festival at Centre Pompidou from 2010 to 2013.

[7][8] Under Hinstin, the festival shifted its course to a more eclectic line-up in aim to provide more equal representation of movies and directors, disregarding their genders and provenance.

Citing significant differences and diverging strategic views with the event’s top management, she stepped down in September 2020.

[11] In 2019, she was one of the two French women with Sidonie Dumas included in the third edition of Variety500,[12] an index of the 500 most influential business leaders shaping the global media industry.