Yeo-jeong Jo in Parasite (2019). Image: IMDB.
This year, according to Sydney Film Festival CEO Leigh Small, there were 160 sold out sessions, and a total attendance of 188,000. Officially there were 112 feature films and 79 documentaries, though those numbers were bolstered by a few late announcements. ‘We now micromarket all the time,’ she told Screenhub, ‘and all the films find audiences and they are vastly more diverse.’