As Sundance director Tabitha Jackson's reign at the indie film festival gets well underway, the marquee indie U.S. film showcase has gone mostly online with a pandemic-era discovery lineup filled with work by women and BIPOC directors and more than half the 2021 program shot by first-time helmers.
For Jackson, the focus on debut feature directors underlines how, despite the COVID-19 crisis pausing film production in Hollywood and upending planning for Sundance's upcoming Jan.
28 to Feb. 3, 2021, edition, the marquee festival isn't playing it safe as it doubles down on revealing new independent voices to the world. "It's meant that hard work and new voices have been able to emerge in a way that perhaps they wouldn't have been able to do in.
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