Organizers of the 2019 Sundance Film Festival are putting Hollywood’s talk of diversity into action, announcing changes to the event’s programming staff, panels and press corps.
The Sundance Institute, the Robert Redford-founded arts nonprofit that runs the January festival in Park City and Salt Lake City, announced Monday that it is adding to its programming team — the people who decide what films are screened at the festival — to strike a 50/50 gender balance.
Three women have been added to the programming staff: Dilcia Barrera as a programmer, Stephanie Owens as an associate programmer, and Sudeep Sharma as a shorts programmer.