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Black directors make just 1% of competition films

Updated: Nov 8, 2023

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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 (several festivals did not take place in 2020 due to the pandemic, while Montreal World Film Festival took place in 2018 but not subsequently).

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