In the 2023 competition, for example, 42% of the selected directors were Black female NYU students and alums. A strange version of social justice when all of those directors went to the same extremely expensive school.

Some other thoughts: there was only one heterosexual male director in competition at Sundance this year, even though probably 60% of the submissions fit that profile. The shorts are likely just as bad, at least the US ones.

A look at the labs will also likely reveal a lot of this, both the NYU stuff and the discrimination.

Thanks!