How LA Film Festival Achieved Diversity by "Looking for People Who Are Seeing the World Differently"

The 2015 Los Angeles Film Festival features one of the most diverse programming slates among major festivals, with 40% of features directed by women and almost 30% helmed by filmmakers of color (not counting foreign movies). In an interview with the LA Times, LAFF director Stephanie Allain and associate director Roya Rastegar revealed the sweat, the rewards and the pushback behind their months-long effort to make the festival as varied and multi-faceted as Los Angeles itself.  "Our priority is presenting diverse points of view," Allain informed agents, managers and studio executives. "There was an uncomfortable silence," Allain recalls. "They'd say,...

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