Even amid an industry push for inclusion, capitalizing on festival notoriety can be a steep climb for underrepresented directors.
The lack of racial diversity in Hollywood, be it on screen or behind the scenes, was forced into the spotlight in 2016 following the second consecutive year of #OscarsSoWhite, where the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said it would aim to double its female and minority members by this year.
"We just can’t let that happen. So we felt that we need to have a presence at Sundance. It’s one of the nexus points where culture is being created and being decided upon," she adds. Sundance 1991 wunderkind Matty Rich saw just how difficult the transition from the festival to Hollywood can be for a young black filmmaker. At just 19 years old, his picreceived special jury recognition and he became, in his own words, “this kid sensation who made a 35mm feature film from his mother and sister’s credit cards and the help of community members.
Simien notes that he couldn’t get a project starring an Oscar- and Emmy-winning actor greenlit because the person “was just not big enough” for the studio: “It still comes down to whether studio heads feel like taking a chance on a black-led cast, and the answer’s usually no.”
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