Sundance Film Festival’s new director

An award-winning filmmaker Tabitha Jackson once shared in a talk that she strongly believes «Stories and films are transmission system for values. Acts of communication between filmmakers and the film, between the film and the audience and between the audience and the culture is what creates a space for progressive change». Sundance Film Festival has grown into America’s premiere festival and sales market, a platform for global independent voices that propel social change through film. One the outgoing director John Cooper’s 11 years’ tenure, the festival’s scope and ambition has evolved including programmatic innovation and global expansion. 

Fiercely devoted to independent artists, Tabitha Jackson has been named the incoming director of the Sundance Film Festival, and in the new position will lead the festival into the future, unveiling the next generation of artists and their stories. With almost 25 years experience in the field, Tabitha Jackson will resume a role ensuring that the festival «remains as effective, vital and transformational in the years going forward, as it has been in the past», Jackson said in an interview to Variety.