#GAReads | Women and people of color are 'vastly underrepresented' at film fests, says new study

Director Lulu Wang’s “The Farewell” debuted at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival.

“Women and people of color are 'vastly underrepresented' at film fests, says new study”:

A new study has found another arena within the entertainment industry where women and people of color remain underrepresented: the world’s top film festivals.

The Time’s Up Foundation and USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative released a report on Saturday examining the gender, race and ethnicity of narrative film directors, film festival programmers and executives from 2017-2019 titled “Inclusion at Film Festivals.”

The findings show that women and people of color are “vastly underrepresented” at film festivals worldwide.

Read Tracy Brown’s full article at the Los Angeles Times here…