: Jackson would be the first woman, the first person of color and the first non-U.S. born leader of the prestigious Utah film festival, replacing outgoing predecessor John Cooper.COVID-19 pandemicTo say her inaugural year heading the most influential film festival in America was rife with unpredictable challenges is an understatement. But on Jan.
This is your first Sundance Film Festival as festival director. In your own words, who is Tabitha Jackson? How did your 25 years as a filmmaker and your work heading the Sundance Institute’s documentary program inform your approach to this new role?The same animating impulse that made me want to make films and that made me want to support filmmakers is what drew me to this extraordinary privilege and responsibility of running the Sundance Film Festival — which is the independent voice and calling attention to things in the world or things in the world of the imagination that illuminate who we are,...