PARK CITY, UT -- The Sundance Film Festival has been the chief launching pad for talented women directors since Robert Redford took it over more than 20 years ago, and showing a film there is one of the few ways to break through the gender politics that plague the industry. Karyn Kusama, for one, got her start in 2000 when Girlfight won the grand jury prize, and there were five other women directors with her out of the 16 competing, one of the best showings by women in that category. Now she's directing the big-budget Aeon Flux, starring Charlize Theron, which is due out later in 2005.
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