After nine days of films, episodics, events, premieres and snow, Sundance is winding down and its ending with huge news as the Park City fest has announced Tabitha Jackson as the new Director of th…
Jackson, who joined the Sundance Institute as the Director of the Documentary Film Program in 2013, will take the torch from John Cooper, who announced he was. Sundance 2020 was Cooper’s last fest as director. Jackson will oversee the Festival’s overall vision and strategy while leading a senior team in close collaboration with Director of Programming, Kim Yutani. Cooper will take on the newly-created role of Emeritus Director.
She continued, “With those two touchstones from him, which, are incidentally the same founding values that he had in 1981, are still resonant and relevant today. I’m very confident in the ‘why’ of what we do. We will all be about valuing, nurturing, championing the independent voice and getting work to audiences because I think independent media is a catalytic force for both social and cultural progress.
She added, “There’s a real necessity for festivals almost as a circuit of distribution. It’s hard. It’s much easier than it has been before for this independent work to be seen, which is wonderful but part of our role as a curator is to lift up and draw attention to that work and those artists that we feel may go unnoticed.”
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