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Siblings (Teddy Lee, left, and Tiffany Chu) reconnect in Justin Chon's "Ms. Purple," an official selection in the U.S. Dramatic Competition of the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. (Photo by Ante Chen, courtesy of the Sundance Institute)

Siblings (Teddy Lee, left, and Tiffany Chu) reconnect in Justin Chon's "Ms. Purple," an official selection in the U.S. Dramatic Competition of the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. (Photo by Ante Chen, courtesy of the Sundance Institute)

Diversity and data: Filmmakers work to change Hollywood's white-male dominance, and Sundance has the numbers to help them do it

January 23, 2019 by Sean P. Means

The numbers are brutal: Among 1,200 popular films over the last 12 years, 4 percent of the directors were women, 6 percent were African-American, and 3.1 percent were Asian-American.

Filmmakers at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival talked to me about that disparity, and how they combat it by telling stories that are both specific to their setting and universal in their emotional weight. Meanwhile, the Sundance Film Festival is tallying the demographics of the filmmakers whose films will play there over the next 11 days.

Read the story at sltrib.com.

January 23, 2019 /Sean P. Means
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