More women and people of color are starting on the path toward making movies by entering their works into the Sundance Film Festival, a new analysis of the festival’s submission data found.
Among submissions for the 2017 and 2018 festivals, 28 percent of the feature-length films and episodic works submitted to Sundance had at least one woman director, according to an analysis created by the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative and announced Friday at a panel discussion at the festival.
Women directors who had films at Sundance in 2017 included Dee Rees (“Mudbound”), Zoe Lister-Jones (“Band Aid”), and Amanda Lipitz (“Step”).