The 2018 edition of the Mill Valley Film Festival (MVFF) features 45 percent women directors in its program. Already a proven supporter of women in film, MVFF has made it official and signed a Gender Parity Pledge, following in the footsteps of fests such as Cannes, Venice, and Toronto. A press release announced the news.

Introduced at Cannes earlier this year, the Pledge is a way to hold fests accountable as they work towards full gender parity. By signing the document, festival signatories promise to gather stats according to the filmmakers’ gender, identify the fest members who select films to screen, and develop a schedule to achieve equality on the festival board. The Pledge was created by 5050×2020, an offshoot of  Le Deuxième Regard, and seeks to improve representation and transparency by 2020.

“We sign this pledge in solidarity with women across the globe—it aligns perfectly with the goals we’ve been pursuing to promote gender equity in filmmaking. We are thrilled to join as signatories,” said Zoë Elton, MVFF director of programming and founder of MVFF’s Mind the Gap gender equity initiative.

The pledge was co-signed by Mill Valley Film Festival Founder/Director Mark Fishkin and Director of Programming Zoë Elton at the second annual Mind the Gap Summit, “a full-day intensive session of thought leaders and creatives in the film and tech industries promoting women’s inclusion in film,” according to the release. Dr. Stacy Smith, an Associate Professor at USC Annenberg and Founder and Director of the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, delivered the Summit keynote and received the Mind the Gap award. Smith is known for her intersectional research into the film industry. “Professor Marston and the Wonder Women” director Angela Robinson received the inaugural Mind the Gap Award last year.

MVFF kicked off on October 4 and runs through the 14th.