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The Latino Film Institute has appointed Erika Sabel Flores and Sergio Monserrate to two key positions. Flores has been named executive director of the group’s Youth Cinema Project, and Monserrate will be executive director of the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival. The festival’s 22nd edition is set for May 31-June 4. “I am proud…
Latinx creatives gathered around sopes and mezcal at Cantina Frida in Beverly Hills on Monday afternoon for a conversation around community and representation in Hollywood. “The fact that this room exists now is so enormous,” said writer and producer Gloria Calderón Kellett, who created the Prime Video series With Love. “We’ve got to talk about…
Women and girls are featured in more than 60 percent of stories and were over half of the leading and co-leading roles in Netflix content in 2021, according to the streamer’s second film and TV series diversity study. Released on Thursday, the Inclusion in Netflix Original U.S. Scripted Series and Films report also indicates increases…
It wasn’t their job, until they made it their job. That’s the surprisingly innovative ethos behind Lionsgate’s Production Inclusion Coalition program, started by a group of physical and postproduction staffers during the early months of the pandemic. PIC includes a growing number of tangible action plans to widen and diversify the industry pipelines for both…
As an extension of its partnership with the Latino Film Institute, announced in October 2022, Amazon Studios is providing a finishing fund for three indie filmmakers to complete their narrative or documentary features. Directors and independent production companies can submit their picture-locked cuts to LALIFF Works in Progress, which will evaluate based on unique directorial…
Among the persistently small number of people in the Indigenous film community who are known in the larger Hollywood ecosystem, Heather Rae has been a mainstay. The independent film producer formerly ran the Sundance Institute’s Native Program (now known as the Indigenous Program); she serves on the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences’ Indigenous…
The regression from the so-called racial reckoning of 2020 can be seen in representation and inclusion in film as well, according to the latest UCLA Hollywood Diversity Report. This year, in separating employment data between theatrical and straight-to-streaming features, “the gains in diversity for theatrical releases melted away,” researchers found, noting that gender and racial…
Culture Shift: Putting the Asian Achievements at the 2023 Oscars in Perspective Culture Shift is THR‘s new newsletter dedicated to exploring and examining the current frontiers of inclusion in the media and entertainment industry. Each bimonthly edition will give subscribers the first look at stories centering the experiences of people from historically excluded backgrounds, as well as…
Hollywood Latino Leaders Form Visionary Alliance to Combat Disinformation in Media: “A Cancer Is Starting to Eat Up the Town” (Exclusive) They’re the most disproportionately underrepresented demographic in Hollywood, an industry that makes its headquarters in a county where they comprise the plurality of the population. And even as other systemically marginalized groups make prominent…
Men Out-Talk Women Almost Three to One in the Movies, Study Finds In the movies, women are talking (as Mark Wahlberg put it) — but not as much as the men. Male-speaking characters outnumbered their female counterparts 63 percent to 37 percent in the 100 highest-grossing domestic films of 2022, according to the latest “It’s…