This year, the Sundance Film Festival is showing a strong slate of diverse filmmakers and stories such as Justin Simien’s Bad Hair, Dee Rees’ The Last Thing He Wanted, HBO’s Welco…
, actress and director Eva Longoria, director Angela Robinson and the Sundance Institute’s Dilcia Barrera will be hand for a panel to discuss the new study.
Commissioned by the Time’s Up Foundation, the study analyzed the demographic makeup of film directors and festival programmers and executives across the top five global film festivals and the top 10 North American film festivals. Globally, the study found that only 25% of directors in competition sections across the last three years were women.
The study found a similar pattern in North America, where 71% of directors were men compared to 29% who were women. Likewise, 17% were white women and 12% were women of color – compared to white men, who made up 45% of film directors at North American festivals.and access is so critical,” said Tina Tchen, president and CEO of Time’s Up Foundation.
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