Tabitha Jackson, currently director of the documentary program at the Sundance Institute, will take over from John Cooper as the Sundance Institute approaches its 40th anniversary.
Liz Garbus and Heidi Ewing have both been acclaimed for their documentary films, but that was no guarantee they’d actually get to direct their first narrative features, which both premiered at Sundance 2020.
“As we exist in this changing media landscape, those touchstones along with the independent voice, that’s going to get us through a lot,” Jackson said. “Apart from Redford, Frank Zappa would be my other key text where he said, ‘without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.’ So I think that’s what independence is in a sense as well. When we think of the work, it’s about doing something differently.
It was announced last summer that Cooper would be stepping down as director of the festival and into a newly created position as emeritus director, taking over special projects including preparations for the Institute’s 40th anniversary next year. Keri Putnam, director of the Sundance Institute, put out a public call to fill the festival director position. Some 700 people applied, which was narrowed down to a short list of six to 10 applicants and then finally four finalists.
“Tabitha really just consistently emerged for me for a few reasons,” said Putnam in a separate interview. “She really gets our mission and she really gets why we exist in the world. And she asks tough questions about it, so she’s not contented to let that mission just sit where it is today.
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