Latest in Tabitha Jackson

Tabitha Jackson, Director, Sundance Film Festival and Public Programming, will be leaving the Sundance Institute. At the same time, Director of Programming Kim Yutani will join the senior leadership team of the Institute. Sundance Institute CEO Joana Vicente made the announcement today. Jackson will depart the…

“Let's keep moving forward,” Sundance Film Festival director Tabitha Jackson said Thursday in the middle of the virtual opening-day virtual press conference for the near-40-year-old event. The expression was meant as a segue, but organically took on a greater meaning for the premier global indie festival, which was…

For those who’ve never been to the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, this year could be your first time — wherever you are. And that might be a good thing if you’re experiencing Sundance from home. For those who’ve been, you don’t have to worry about scrambling for a last minute ticket to a screening, which…

You won't need your boots, puffy coats and wooly hats for next year's Sundance Film Festival, but the Robert Redford created cinema shindig is still aiming to capture movie fans and Hollywood's attention, in a semi-virtual fashion. "Each year we select a number of films to open the festival which represents a cross…

The Sundance Film Festival on Wednesday unveiled more details about its 2021 edition, which will span not only its Park City hub as previously announced but also several art houses and drive-ins nationwide, along with an online viewing platform so that all can partake and enjoy the fest during the pandemic. The…

The Sundance Film Festival is just around the corner and from the look of things, it’s going to be a little different this year. The Sundance Institute released a teaser trailer on Tuesday to hype people up for the 2021 iteration Park City-based fest which has been the destination for some of Hollywood’s most…

Sundance Festival Director Tabitha Jackson unveiled today in an open memo to the Sundance community what the 2021 Festival is bound to look like in the continuing COVID-19 environment. While recognizing that there’s still no vaccine, that many are unable to travel, yet socially distanced gatherings are permitted in…

A series of high-profile names have committed to speaking at CARLA 2020, a digital conference focusing on creating lasting structural change in the film and TV industries post-COVID-19. Keynote speakers will include Belle filmmaker Amma Asante, new Sundance director Tabitha Jackson, Swedish Film Institute CEO Anna…

The industry is a long way from discovering how, or even when, the film festival circuit will return to any kind of functionality. Cannes is canned, replaced with a virtual market and potentially some branded tie-up with another event later in the year, and the summer festival calendar has been decimated by…

After nine days of films, episodics, events, premieres and snow, Sundance is winding down and its ending with huge news as the Park City fest has announced Tabitha Jackson as the new Director of the Sundance Film Festival. Jackson, who joined the Sundance Institute as the Director of the Documentary Film Program in…

On Oscar nomination morning, director RaMell Ross tuned in to see if his documentary Hale County This Morning, This Evening would make the cut. A year earlier it would have seemed like the longest of long shots, a film without major distribution that defied easy description, dealing with African-American life in the…