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Producer Heather Rae Addresses Native Heritage Controversy: “For Several Years I Have Identified as an Ally” (Exclusive)
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 […]
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How Inevitable Foundation Developed Its “Aggressive” Solution to Pay Disabled Writers Not to Settle for Consulting Jobs
In 2021, shortly after founding Inevitable Foundation, their nonprofit to advocate for disabled screenwriters, Richie Siegel and Marisa Torelli-Pedevska penned a guest column for The Hollywood Reporter explaining the “consultant trap” in which all too many scribes with disabilities find themselves. Rather than hiring them for the writers room, the industry tends to relegate such […]
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Racial and Gender Diversity in Theatrical Film Regresses to 2019 Levels (Study)
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. For this year’s study, in separating employment data between theatrical and straight-to-streaming features released in 2022, “the gains in diversity for theatrical releases melted away,” researchers found, […]
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Daniel Radcliffe Moderates Trans and Nonbinary Youth Roundtable for The Trevor Project (Exclusive)
Daniel Radcliffe is continuing his allyship. As part of Sharing Space, a new video series from the nonprofit The Trevor Project that features roundtable conversations with LGBTQ youth moderated by adult allies, the Harry Potter alum is featured in the first episode, hosting a discussion with six transgender and nonbinary youth. The episode premieres on […]
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Amazon Studios Teams With IllumiNative for Episodic Directors Program (Exclusive)
Amazon Studios has partnered with IllumiNative to create the IllumiNative Episodic Directors Program. Over the next year, the inaugural cohort of early- and mid-career Indigenous filmmakers will shadow directors on the upcoming second season of the streamer’s neo-Western series Outer Range, which includes an Indigenous character among its main cast. The participants will be paid […]
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Macro Launches Multicultural Marketing Executive Pipeline Program With General Motors
Diverse content and products only go so far without the multicultural expertise to market them. As such, Macro has teamed with General Motors for a new five-month program designed to diversify the pipeline of executives in marketing, branding, public relations and communications. “It is a thrill and an honor to work with GM in creating […]
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Film Independent Announces Inaugural Filmmakers for Imaginar Producers Residency (Exclusive)
Film Independent has unveiled the three filmmakers who will participate in its inaugural Imaginar Producers Residency, first announced in November. “The Imaginar Producers Residency is an innovative and holistic program that provides Latinx producers tailored support with the goal to help achieve long-term sustainability,” Film Independent director of artist development Angela C. Lee said in […]
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Ludacris’ Media Company Inks Licensing Deals to Boost Black-Owned Businesses
When Karma’s World launched two years ago, series creator Chris “Ludacris” Bridges told The Hollywood Reporter he hoped the Netflix animated series would help build the confidence of the current generation of children. The show, which also features Bridges voicing the title character’s father, premiered its fourth season in September and centers on a talented […]
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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 a compendium of other inclusion-themed coverage you might have missed. Expect a […]
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Steven Yeun and Ali Wong Are Locked in a Blood Feud in ‘Beef’ Trailer
Steven Yeun and Ali Wong let their tempers spiral wildly out of control in the trailer for A24’s Beef. In the dark comedy series, Amy (Wong) is a wife and mother who seems to have it all, while Danny (Yeun) is a struggling contractor with downward fortunes, but both are miserable — as cued by […]
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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 and visible strides in pop culture, Latinos have remained caught in a cycle of development hell, with projects created by and […]
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Creatives of Chinese and Indian Descent Triumph at 2023 Oscars
Because of the unimaginable-a-year-ago dominance of Everything Everywhere All at Once and the perception bias in which deviations from the norm appear more outsized than they actually are, the 2023 Oscars might be remembered as the most Asian Academy Awards yet. Winners of Asian descent — namely, of Chinese and Indian ethnicity — took home […]
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