DIASPORA BULLETIN is a virtual community board where filmmakers, writers and creators can write their own article/announcement about events, screenings or their own indie project (film, TV pilot, web series, short film, etc). For complete details on how to...
Lil Rel Howery stay working. After aggrandizing the TSA in Jordan Peele's game-changing Get Out, was seen on TV and film but the past year has been one helluva year for the comedian and actor. He was seen in the Oscar-nominated pic The Black Messiah; he hosts and...
As the all-inclusive Bentonville Film Festival gets underway, the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media partnered with the Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment (CAPE) and Gold House, for study entitled, "I Am Not a Fetish or Model Minority: Redefining...
One of Hollywood's favorite white, straight, cisgender, able-bodied men by the name of Matt Damon announced that he would no longer use the term "faggot" because one of his daughters told him it was slur that shouldn't be used. Yup, that happened. In an interview...
Riz Ahmed, Left Handed Films, and the Pillars Fund are partnering to officially launch the Pillars Artist Fellowship on July 29. Applications will be accepted for the new fellowship to emerging Muslim directors and screenwriters. Applications will be accepted to...
Ava DuVernay’s ARRAY has announced their inaugural masterclass with celebrated Ethiopian filmmaker Haile Gerima. Applications are now being accepted until August 9 for the Los Angeles-based intensive workshop, being led by the legendary figure of the L.A. Rebellion...
GLAAD released its ninth annual Studio Responsibility Index (SRI), a study that maps the quantity, quality, and diversity of LGBTQ characters in films released by the eight major film studios. Due to the unique disruption to theatrical releases in the U.S. in 2020...
By our count, we tallied 42 nominations for people of color in the acting categories that were revealed this morning during the annual Emmy nomination eleganza extravaganza hosted by father-daughter team Ron Cephas Jones and Jasmine Cephas Jones. However, our...
The Laugh Out Loud (LOL) comedy platform and the Sundance Institute, have launched Women Write Now, a screenwriting fellowship designed to spotlight the next generation of Black women in comedy, amplifying their voices . Through mentorship, advocacy, production,...
