#MIPCOM: Banijay Launches Program to Support Women Creatives in the Non-Scripted TV Business

#MIPCOM: Banijay Launches Program to Support Women Creatives in the Non-Scripted TV Business

Leading independent production company Banijay has launched a global accelerator program designed to support women creators in the non-scripted television business. Sharon Levy, CEO of Endemol Shine North America, announced the new program together with Banijay Chief Content Officer James Townley, at the international television conference MIPCOM Cannes on Tuesday. The program, Banijay Launch, will…

Read More
#MIPCOM: EbonyLife CEO Mo Abudu Calls on Studios, Streamers to Put Real Money Into Telling “African and Black Stories”

#MIPCOM: EbonyLife CEO Mo Abudu Calls on Studios, Streamers to Put Real Money Into Telling “African and Black Stories”

Efforts to diversify the global television industry have fallen short, argued Nigerian-British Media Mogul Mo Abudu, CEO of EbonyLife Media, in a keynote on diversity and inclusion at global film and television industry at the MIPCOM Cannes on Tuesday. Despite much-ballyhooed D&I attempts by studios and streamers, Abudu said she still sees a startling lack…

Read More
#‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Among Films in Camerimage Main Competition

#‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Among Films in Camerimage Main Competition

Killers of the Flower Moon, All of Us Strangers and Black Flies will be part of the main competition at this year’s EnergaCamerimage international cinematography film festival. Martin Scorsese’s 1920s-set Killers, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone and Robert De Niro, tracks suspicious murders of members of the Osage Nation, who became some of the richest people…

Read More
#Tim Scott criticized Trump’s comments about Netanyahu: ‘terrible and not helpful’ 

#Tim Scott criticized Trump’s comments about Netanyahu: ‘terrible and not helpful’ 

South Carolina Senator Tim Scott (R) criticized the recent comments made by former President Trump about Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.  The Republican senator and 2024 presidential candidate described Trump’s comments as “terrible and not helpful” during his Monday conversation hosted by Georgetown’s Institute of Politics and Public Service and The Associated Press.  “We should…

Read More