Former Sundance Film Festival chief Tabitha Jackson has been named the director of New York’s Film Forum . Jackson will assume the role on Feb. 23. An industry veteran with over 30 years of experience in independent and non-profit media, Jackson joins Film Forum after two years of research fellowships with MIT Open Documentary Lab, the Royal Shakespeare Company and Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, along with a Rockefeller Foundation residency. '