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New Talent Accelerator Industry Standard Launches to Diversify Post-Production Fields (Exclusive)
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 historically excluded backgrounds to build careers in post-production. Now the two women are continuing that work with a new independent venture, Industry Standard, a talent accelerator for early- to […]
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How ‘The Sympathizer’ Star Hoa Xuande Transformed Himself to Play a Vietnamese Double Agent
Even toward the end of The Sympathizer’s six-month shoot, Hoa Xuande would still sometimes look out over the set in disbelief and think, “Am I really sitting here? Are they really letting me do this?” “This” would be toplining HBO and A24’s limited series adaptation of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about a communist […]
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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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Starz, CAPE Team for Showrunners Incubator for Asian Pacific Islander TV Writers (Exclusive)
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 industry. Now, the Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment is expanding its focus to the other end of the pipeline. The CAPE Showrunners […]
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Greta Gerwig, Lily Gladstone Join Selection Committee for Cate Blanchett’s Fund for Women, Trans, Nonbinary Stories
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, Emma Corrin, Eva Longoria, Greta Gerwig, Jane Campion, Janicza Bravo, Lily Gladstone and Lilly Wachowski will form the eight-person selection committee for the fund, […]
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Cris Abrego and Eva Longoria’s Hyphenate Media Group Sets Leadership Team
Hyphenate Media Group, the content studio and media holding company founded by Eva Longoria and Banijay Americas chair Cris Abrego last fall, has unveiled its executive leadership team. STX Entertainment president of scripted television and production Jada Miranda has been tapped as Hyphenate president of television, while joining her in the C-suite are chief strategy […]
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DGA Approves Provisional Jewish Diversity Committee (Exclusive)
The Directors Guild of America is moving forward with plans to establish a diversity committee for its Jewish members. At its most recent meeting in Los Angeles on Feb. 11 (held the day after the 2024 DGA Awards), the national board approved the formation of a provisional Jewish committee, which all guild subgroups pass through […]
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ColorCreative’s Find Your People Program Adds Composer Track for Year Two (Exclusive)
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 unique in that it isn’t only targeted to emerging creatives in above-the-line roles. Instead, it solicits applicants from seven disciplines – directors, producers, cinematographers, production […]
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Reflecting on Lily Gladstone’s Historic Awards Run: “There Was Not a Single Misstep Taken At All”
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 American Oscar nominee. Although the votes fell just short of securing her that final superlative — Poor Things’ Emma Stone won the Academy Award for […]
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Da’Vine Joy Randolph Thanks Her Publicist in Oscars Acceptance Speech
Da’Vine Joy Randolph is now an Oscar winner. By Sunday night, this result was mostly a foregone conclusion, as she had already swept best supporting actress at the BAFTA, Critics Choice, Independent Spirit, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards this season for her performance in Alexander Payne’s throwback dramedy The Holdovers. Randolph played cafeteria […]
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‘True Detective’ Star Kali Reis Embraces Her Afro-Indigenous Heritage: “I Have Two Rooms I Can Stand In”
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 Seaconke Wampanoag people. “My great-grandmother, grandmother, mother were taught, generation after generation, ‘You don’t say you’re Wamp.’” She […]
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How Documentary Orgs Serving People of Color Are Coming Together to Survive and Thrive
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. Today, Color Congress has published a new report that lays out how solidarity among these groups has impacted the field for them all. “The People of Color […]
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