Female directors account for exactly 50% of the 2021 Sundance Film Festival slate, while 51% of filmmakers are people of color. Additionally, 15% of directors identify as LGBTQ+ and 4% identify as non-binary.
The diverse lineup put forward by Sundance’s new director, Tabitha Jackson, represents an uptick from last year, when people of color directed more than half of the films in competition but less than half of the full festival slate. For 2021, 70 of the 140 films and projects — including features, shorts and New Frontier category of art projects — were directed by one or more women, and 71 were directed by a person of color.
In the U.S. Dramatic competition specifically, which for the last several years has always had a near-even split in terms of representation, half of the competing directors are women and 40% are Bipoc. Women directed even more of the films in the documentary category, representing 64% of the 11 directors in the group,...
The diverse lineup put forward by Sundance’s new director, Tabitha Jackson, represents an uptick from last year, when people of color directed more than half of the films in competition but less than half of the full festival slate. For 2021, 70 of the 140 films and projects — including features, shorts and New Frontier category of art projects — were directed by one or more women, and 71 were directed by a person of color.
In the U.S. Dramatic competition specifically, which for the last several years has always had a near-even split in terms of representation, half of the competing directors are women and 40% are Bipoc. Women directed even more of the films in the documentary category, representing 64% of the 11 directors in the group,...
- 12/15/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
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