WEEK IN WOMEN: Can Parity at Sundance Up End #OscarsSoMale? – Brandy McDonnell reports
While the 2019 Academy Award nominees in non-acting categories are again embarrassingly and annoyingly #OscarsSoMale, for the first time in the history of Sundance Film Festival’s prestigious U.S. Dramatic Competition, more than half of the films in the category boasted a female director in 2019, with nine of the 16 films having a woman directing, or in one case, co-directing with a man. Will this make for greater gender parity in the future for Oscars’ non-acting nominees? Continue reading on THE WEEK IN WOMEN.