Toronto Film Festival Boasts Record Number of Women Directors, Nears Gender Parity
Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaFemale filmmakers are behind nearly half of the films that will screen at this year’s Toronto Film Festival, representing a high-water mark for the annual celebration of the best in movies and pushing the gathering tantalizingly close to achieving gender parity.The lineup includes new works by Roseanne Liang (“Shadow In The Cloud”), Tracey Deer (“Beans”), Sonia Kennebeck (“Enemies of the State”), Chloé Zhao (“Nomadland”), as well as the feature directorial debuts of Oscar-winning actresses Regina King (“One Night in Miami”) and Halle Berry (“Bruised”).