‘PROGRAMMERS OF COLOUR COLLECTIVE’
LAUNCHES AT SUNDANCE 2019
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| The Founding Members, GBTQ+ made their first public appearance together last night at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah. Having already confirmed 85 members, POC2 (Programmers of Colour Collective) |
Members from a new collective of film festival programmers comprising people of colour, women, and TSLGBTQ+ made their first public appearance together last night at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah. Having already confirmed 85 members, POC2 (Programmers of Colour Collective) aims to stimulate conversation around the underrepresentation of people of colour within film programming and international film festival staffing, but also to act as a catalyst for transformative change towards a more inclusive international programming pool.
The Founding Members (listed below) issued the following statement:
“As a collective, we’re forward-looking and focused on connecting people with opportunities. Whilst we seek to diversify the current festival programming pool, we also want to create a network of new talent from all of our communities that feed into those pools and creates its own programming activities. We want to be a portal where other collectives with similar interests can connect with us, offer advice and who we ourselves can advise on festivals, programmers and films. Essentially, we’re a new door into the industry for other POC groups and filmmakers.”
Founding Members:
Paul Struthers FRAMELINE Director of Exhibition & Programming
Lucy Mukerjee TRIBECA Senior Programmer
Hussain Currimbhoy SUNDANCE Programmer
Themba Bhebhe EFM Diversity & Inclusion
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