Just eight of 670 competition films over three years came from black filmmakers.
Black filmmakers are being significantly underrepresented in the main sections of the world’s major competitive film festivals, according to a Screen study of the last three years.
Screen has surveyed the main international competitions of the 14 A-category festivals to have held an edition in 2018, 2019 and 2021.
In 2018, just two of 226 films (0.88%) in these sections came from Black filmmakers, with the number at two of 223 (0.9%) in 2019, and four of 221 (1.81%) in 2021.
In total across the three years, only eight of 670 films (1.19%) came from Black filmmakers.
The figures are similar when considering the number of directors.
Black filmmakers are being significantly underrepresented in the main sections of the world’s major competitive film festivals, according to a Screen study of the last three years.
Screen has surveyed the main international competitions of the 14 A-category festivals to have held an edition in 2018, 2019 and 2021.
In 2018, just two of 226 films (0.88%) in these sections came from Black filmmakers, with the number at two of 223 (0.9%) in 2019, and four of 221 (1.81%) in 2021.
In total across the three years, only eight of 670 films (1.19%) came from Black filmmakers.
The figures are similar when considering the number of directors.
- 12/13/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
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