Last year at the Sundance Film Festival, news of Tabitha Jackson’s hiring as the festival’s new director was heralded as a trailblazing moment of firsts: Jackson would be the first woman, the first person of color and the first non-U.S. born leader of the prestigious Utah film festival, replacing outgoing predecessor John Cooper. To say her inaugural year heading the most influential film festival in America was rife with unpredictable challenges is an understatement. (Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times)This is your first Sundance Film Festival as festival director. Sundance Film Festival director Tabitha JacksonYou were announced as incoming festival director on the last day of the 2020 festival. Jackson on the mission that fuels the Sundance Film Festival: "[We’re] doing it because of our commitment to the independent voice.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 24, 2021 13:52 UTC