The DIASPORA List is a list of 10 things that are on DIASPORA's radar for the week. One. It's finally time. Jordan Peele's wildly anticipated and enigmatic Nope is in theaters now. Reviews have been... delightfully mixed with intrigue, confusion, frustration and...
The Sundance Institute and Women in Film Los Angeles (WIF) initiative ReFrame and IMDbPro announced that 47% of the 200 most popular scripted series of the 2021-2022 season earned the ReFrame Stamp for gender-balanced hiring, representing a 7% decrease from the...
The Sundance Institute has announced the 2022 class of Sundance Ignite x Adobe Fellows. Rubing Zhang, Thomas Percy Kim, Advik Beni, Esteban Bailey, Tae Catalina Low, Justin Kim WooSŏk, Fernando Rocha, Giovanna Molina, Anna R. Japaridze, and Mykea Fairweather Perry...
The USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative and Snap Inc. are teaming up for a partnership to provide funding and mentorship to a student filmmaker. The Snap Originals Annenberg Inclusion Award expands on the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative’s Accelerator program...
The Producers Guild of America (PGA) announced today that applications are now open for the scripted cycle of PGA Create, a multi-day lab for emerging and mid-career creative producers from underrepresented backgrounds that launched in 2021. Google is set to return...
Outfest has unveiled their complete lineup of this year’s Outfest Los Angeles LGBTQ+ Film Festival that is being held from July 14-24. The fest celebrates their 40th anniversary with over 200 films, special events including the 6th Annual Trans, Nonbinary &...
On June 21, Janet Yang, who is best known as the executive producer of the groundbreaking film The Joy Luck Club, was honored with a pillar at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. Architect Renzo Piano’s concept for the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is not...
Creative Artists Agency (CAA) has set the in-person return of the CAA Amplify summit, an invitation-only convening of artists, thought-leaders, and executives of color from influential organizations in entertainment, sports, media, technology, and social justice....
The Sundance Institute have selected the group for the Women at Sundance | Adobe Fellows. The eight recipients of the fellowship work across disciplines and stood out for their boundary-pushing work in fiction, documentary, and episodic. The Fellows will receive...
