Spike Lee and Gersh’s HBCU Program Partners With Ralph Lauren to Dress...
As a director known for his sartorial flare, it’s only fitting that Spike Lee’s fellowship program would also ensure his participants are dressed for success. The Spike Fellows, a partnership with the...
View ArticleTelevision Academy Members From Historically Marginalized Races Tick Upwards...
The Television Academy continues to make incremental progress in measuring the diversity and inclusiveness of its organization. The body behind the Emmy Awards has released a progress report on its...
View Article‘Shayda’ Star Zar Amir Ebrahimi First Met Her Agent Keya Khayatian at a...
My Rep and Me is a recurring Culture Shift feature in which reps and clients from the same historically marginalized background sit down to discuss the chemistry and business advantages of their...
View Article2024 Oscars Ties Record for Most Women Nominees, With 32 Percent
Despite the appearance of high-profile snubs in the directing category, the percentage of female nominees for the 2024 Oscars actually ties the record high. This year, as in 2021, 32 percent of the...
View ArticleWayne Brady and Collaborators Mandie Taketa and San Heng to Keynote BRIC...
Wayne Brady: The Family Remix’s Wayne Brady, Mandie Taketa and San Heng will jointly deliver the keynote address at the sixth annual BRIC Summit, which will be held March 15 in downtown Los Angeles and...
View ArticleMovies With Proportionate Racial Representation Notched Highest Median ROI in...
The theatrical releases that saw the highest median return on investment (ROI) in 2023 were those whose casts reflected racial representation proportionate to the real-world U.S. population, according...
View ArticleSacheen Littlefeather’s Claim to Native Ancestry Has Just Gotten a Little...
Nearly a year and a half ago, the late Sacheen Littlefeather became the face of Native identity fraud when skepticism about her background was publicized shortly after her death in October 2022. Now,...
View ArticleHow Documentary Orgs Serving People of Color Are Coming Together to Survive...
Two years ago, documentary impact strategists Sahar Driver and Sonya Childress launched Color Congress to build a coalition among doc organizations that serve filmmakers and/or audiences of color....
View ArticleA Recent History of the Academy’s Accessibility and Disability Inclusion Efforts
The 2021 Oscars was the first time a front-facing ramp was an integrated element of the Academy Awards’ custom-built stage. Academy member Jim LeBrecht, who uses a wheelchair, initiated the effort and...
View Article‘True Detective’ Star Kali Reis Embraces Her Afro-Indigenous Heritage: “I...
Kali Reis does not take her identity for granted. “I’m the first generation of my line who was actually able to grow up in the culture,” said the True Detective: Night Country star of being from the...
View ArticleReflecting on Lily Gladstone’s Historic Awards Run: “There Was Not a Single...
Lily Gladstone’s awards run for Killers of the Flower Moon was historic, with the performer knocking down milestone after milestone: first Indigenous Golden Globe and SAG winner and first Native...
View ArticleColorCreative’s Find Your People Program Adds Composer Track for Year Two...
ColorCreative’s Find Your People Program is introducing more people – this time, composers. The talent development initiative from the company founded by Issa Rae, Deniese Davis and Talitha Watkins is...
View ArticleGreta Gerwig, Lily Gladstone Join Selection Committee for Cate Blanchett’s...
Eight top female, trans and nonbinary creatives are coming together to support the Proof of Concept Accelerator, which exists to bring to life projects about people from those backgrounds. Chloé Zhao,...
View ArticleNeurodiverse Filmmakers and Narratives Take the Spotlight in Two New...
Screenwriter Tony Spiridakis wasn’t familiar with the Museum of the Moving Image’s Marvels of Media Festival — which celebrates the work of mediamakers with autism — before penning his star-studded...
View ArticleStarz, CAPE Team for Showrunners Incubator for Asian Pacific Islander TV...
Many of the current generation of Asian and Pacific Islander writers working in television today came up through the CAPE New Writers Fellowship, one of the most successful entry-level programs in the...
View ArticleNational Hispanic Media Coalition Releases Its First-Ever Media Guide for...
As part of its ongoing mission to promote Latinx civil and human rights, the National Hispanic Media Coalition is releasing its first-ever media guide for storytellers in the entertainment industry....
View ArticleNAACP Reacts to ‘Good Times’ Trailer: “Choices Were Made and Approved” (Guest...
Shortly after Netflix released the trailer for its new adult animated series Good Times two weeks ago, our office started receiving calls and emails. Inspired by the iconic live-action sitcom of the...
View ArticleNew Talent Accelerator Industry Standard Launches to Diversify...
Last year, MakeMake Entertainment managing director Jennifer Sofio Hall and veteran impact producer Bedonna Smith helped launch MakeMake Residencies, a nine-month paid program for people from...
View ArticleHollywood Forfeits Up to $30B Every Year Because of Racial Inequity
Who would pass up $30 billion? Hollywood’s top decision-makers and gatekeepers, apparently. Beginning in 2021, the consulting firm McKinsey has published a series of reports exploring the entertainment...
View ArticleHow ‘Dìdi’ Director Sean Wang’s Bay Area Roots Helped Him Make His Feature Debut
Like many coming-of-age directorial feature debuts, Dìdi (弟弟) is semiautobiographical, but Sean Wang’s personal background played as much of a role in literally making the movie as it did in inspiring...
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