#National Hispanic Media Coalition Releases Its First-Ever Media Guide for Storytellers (Exclusive)

#National Hispanic Media Coalition Releases Its First-Ever Media Guide for Storytellers (Exclusive)

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. “The media guide is an analysis for the entertainment industry to understand our community,” NHMC president and CEO Brenda Victoria Castillo tells The Hollywood Reporter,…

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#Why This Year’s Other Critically Acclaimed Movie Starring Lily Gladstone Hasn’t Been Picked Up (Guest Column)

#Why This Year’s Other Critically Acclaimed Movie Starring Lily Gladstone Hasn’t Been Picked Up (Guest Column)

As Indigenous woman filmmakers, we knew that our path through the industry would be narrow and that our film, Fancy Dance, would have a small window for success based on the abysmal record of representation for Indigenous folx in Hollywood. As such, we channeled our collective wills as granddaughters of Dust Bowl survivors, descendants of…

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#Buffy Sainte-Marie Says CBC Investigation Into Ancestry Includes Fabricated Evidence: “These Allegations Do Not Shake Me”

#Buffy Sainte-Marie Says CBC Investigation Into Ancestry Includes Fabricated Evidence: “These Allegations Do Not Shake Me”

Buffy Sainte-Marie is addressing the claims made in CBC’s The Fifth Estate that she has been fraudulently posing as a Native American over the course of her 60-year career. The documentary episode on the Canadian network series included interviews with Sainte-Marie’s family members who she says she doesn’t know and a birth certificate of hers…

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#‘Carl the Collector,’ PBS Kids’ First Series Led by an Autistic Character, to Premiere in Fall 2024 (Exclusive)

#‘Carl the Collector,’ PBS Kids’ First Series Led by an Autistic Character, to Premiere in Fall 2024 (Exclusive)

Carl the Collector, PBS Kids‘ newest series about a warm-hearted raccoon, will be its first led by a character on the autism spectrum. Created by New York Times best-selling illustrator and author Zachariah OHora, the animated TV show will celebrate the diverse ways kids think and express themselves, and help them develop a sense of self and community. The…

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#How ‘Blue Eye Samurai’s’ Exploration of Mixed Race Identity Helps It “Break All of the Boxes” in Animated Storytelling

#How ‘Blue Eye Samurai’s’ Exploration of Mixed Race Identity Helps It “Break All of the Boxes” in Animated Storytelling

Ahead of the Blue Eye Samurai‘s debut last Friday, co-creator, executive producer and co-writer Amber Noizumi revealed the deeply personal inspiration for the adult animated tale of revenge set in a 17th century Japan and starring a mixed-race master of the sword. The concept was conceived 15 years ago after the birth of Noizumi and…

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#Oscar Winner Buffy Sainte-Marie Responds to Questions About Her Native Heritage: “I Know Who I Am”

#Oscar Winner Buffy Sainte-Marie Responds to Questions About Her Native Heritage: “I Know Who I Am”

A year ago this week, accusations surfaced in the media that the late Sacheen Littlefeather, best known for representing Marlon Brando on the Oscars stage in protest of the treatment of Native Americans, had fabricated her Native heritage. Now Buffy Sainte-Marie, considered to be the first Indigenous Oscar winner (for co-writing the pop standard “Up…

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