Women and people of color are 'vastly underrepresented' at film fests, says new study

The number women directing top-grossing movies rose to the highest level since 2007, with the percentage of female directors doubling since 2018, indicating that Hollywood is making modest progress in its efforts to diversify its ranks.

The study found similar demographics for the directors at the 10 top North American festivals: Sundance, Toronto, New York Film Festival, South by Southwest, Telluride Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, Palm Springs International Film Festival, Santa Barbara International Film Festival, Seattle International Film Festival and Slamdance Film Festival.

According to the report, 71% of the directors were men and 29% were women, with 62% of all directors being white and 38% being people of color. Overall, 45% of the directors were white men, 26% were men of color, 17% were white women and 12% were women of color. There was a 50-50 split between male and female top executives at these 10 festivals . Eighty-five percent of these executives were white and only one was a woman of color. Of the programmers of these North American festivals, 43% were white men, 31% were white women, 13% were men of color and 13% were women of color.

“While some festivals are taking the lead in featuring the voices of women and women of color, this study drives home the need to expand opportunities for women festival programmers — and, in so doing, women directors — of all backgrounds. We can do better,” said Tina Tchen, president and CEO of Time’s Up Foundation in a statement.Time’s Up and the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative will discuss the study during a panel at the Sundance Film Festival on Saturday.

And who’s to blame? Hollywood elite!!

I wasted $10 on Parasite last eve. Ridiculous that it is a Best Pic nominee. If anything perhaps the actors warrant a nod. But the story? Come on.

Have you seen Chinese cinema?

THIS AGAIN

The article and studies should take into account the nature of the festivals. If they're international fests there's plenty of excellent non western films, but if they're only north american or european then they should be a smaller percentage.

So we have to make movies just to fill that gap, are you going to finance them?.. if the answer is no, you can love tour selves.

Asians are NOT ppl of color. So, why show them as representation of a colored person?!! Stop ✋🏾🛑 with the BS! Be truthful in saying it’s the Asians who are complaining about being underrepresented at American film festivals.

Uh, duh?

Boo hoo

The multicultural man in Los Angeles - Jan Theuninck, 1999

Hasn’t this same headline been used for 30 years? 🤔 DeJaVu

Maybe it has to do with the fact that there are not that many female and people of color directors and nothing to do with sex or race bias.

Just stop

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You really couldn't write out the word festivals? You had enough characters. smh

I guess liberal Hollywood producers are racist.

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