Former Sundance Film Festival director Tabitha Jackson has been named director of Manhattan’s four-screen arthouse cinema centre Film Forum, effective February 23.
The New York-based British industry veteran spent the last two years undertaking research fellowships at MIT Open Documentary Lab, Royal Shakespeare Company, Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy; and a Rockefeller Foundation residency in which she addressed the state of institutional trust, and mediated reality and its implications for the documentaries.
Jackson began her career as a researcher, producer, and director for the BBC, before serving as a commissioning editor for arts and performance and animation, and an executive producer for Film4.
She was appointed director of Sundance Institute’s Documentary Film Program in 2013, and was named director of the festival in 2020, steering the event through the pandemic for two entirely digital editions.
”’Independent nonprofit arthouse cinema’ – those four words distill everything I’ve championed throughout my career,” Jackson said. “That they also describe Film Forum, my local movie theatre, makes this appointment feel like coming home.”
“After a search process involving a large number of extremely qualified candidates, our board of directors and staff quickly reached a strong consensus around Tabitha, and it’s no surprise, given her passion for film and history of strong management in the non-profit arts arena,” said Film Forum board chair and co-head of the national search committee Gray Coleman.
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