Austin Film Festival & Writers Conference (AFF) has launched their diversity & inclusion module known as the Uplifting Storytellers Initiative as well as the inaugural Blackmagic Collective Emerging Filmmakers Fellowship Award. This initiative is designed...
GLAAD and the Black List has unveiled The 2022 GLAAD List, the third annual curated list of the most promising unmade LGBTQ-inclusive scripts in Hollywood that have been hosted on blcklst.com. In previous years, the GLAAD List included 10 film scripts. This year,...
We are weeks away from Asian Pacific American Heritage Month and Pride is the month after. As we set up to celebrate the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community as well as the LGBTQIA community, The Trevor Project has released an eye-opening report...
We are less than a month away from Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, but that doesn't mean we can't celebrate early... or even outside the month of May for that matter. And what better way to celebrate Asian culture then with leaning into the...
Outfest is set to honor Sandra Oh with the James Schamus Ally Award and Stephanie Beatriz with the Fusion Achievement Award on April 8 at the opening night Gala of the 2022 Outfest Fusion QTBIPOC (Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous and People of Color) Film Festival....
Ryan Coogler's Proximity Media has set Paola Mardo as its new SVP and Head of Audio, Deadline reports. Prior to joining Proximity Media, Mardo was the executive producer at Malcolm Gladwell’s Pushkin Industries. While there,she produced the Apple Fitness+ audio...
Lena Waithe and Rishi Rajani's Hillman Grad Productions has selected the new class of 22 emerging filmmakers for its Mentorship Lab program. Spearheaded by Executive Director Lacy Lew Nguyen Wright, and Senior Advisor Justin Riley, the program provide...
Pillars Fund, Riz Ahmed, and Left Handed Films have selected the inaugural cohort of the Pillars Artist Fellowship, The selected fellows include 10 emerging Muslim directors and writers, seven from the U.S. and three from the U.K. The 2022 Pillars Artist Fellows...
The 53rd NAACP Image Awards concluded with a live broadcast hosted by Anthony Anderson. The ceremony also featured appearances by Mary J. Blige, Kerry Washington, Lil Nas X, LL Cool J, Megan Thee Stallion, Michael Strahan, Morgan Freeman, Regina King, Paula Patton,...
