At Sundance, Women Filmmakers Get a Promotion

The Sundance Institute and Women in Film have joined together to track the women filmmakers at Sundance this year in order to help them understand and find ways to promote more women filmmakers in the future. 

Keri Putnam, president of the Sundance Institute, said the organizations were motivated by statistics that show that only 5 percent of the top 250 films last year were directed by women. That figure hasn't changed since 1998... By tracking the progress and challenges of female filmmakers participating in Sundance programs this year, the Sundance Institute and Women In Film hope to discover the pitfalls that prevent gender parity in film and television and devise means of overcoming them. - Yahoo News

This seems like a great way to help make a difference, but ThinkProgress suggests even more statistics we should look for when determining the differences between men and women in the film industry and how we can change the system for the better: salaries for women in the film industry, financing for projects lead by women, economic performance for films created and produced by women. 

I feel like that would really help, but seems a lot more difficult to figure out than what the Sundance Institute and Women in Film are tracking. How do you think we could figure out the stats ThinkProgress asks for?