Here's another milestone! For the first time, this festival will have more women than men vying for prizes, reports nytimes.com. A considerable 68% of all competition films this year were directed by women. Why? nytimes.com quotes Stacy L. Smith, who founded the Inclusion Initiative, who says many film institutes and film festivals have started a concerted effort to think more critically about how they select, and who is on the selection committee "because we know that is where bias comes in”.
Three of those Tribeca-selected women directors shared their paths to the director’s chair in the nytimes.com article - click here to read.
TribecaFilmFestival 7-18 Jun 2023