As Indigenous woman filmmakers, we knew that our path through the industry would be narrow and that our film, Fancy Dance, would have a small window for success based on the abysmal record of representation for Indigenous folx in Hollywood. As such, we channeled our collective wills as granddaughters of …

As the ongoing battles in state legislatures over classroom curricula indicate, history – or at least the curation of which stories to teach, and from which perspectives – is subjective. So too is Hollywood’s rich tradition of biopics, which imply to audiences whose lives are worthy of immortalizing on film. …

For the first time since the beginning of the pandemic, USC’s Annenberg Inclusion Initiative has released its signature comprehensive report on the diversity of movies in front of and behind the camera. Analyzing the 100 highest-grossing movies at the box office each year since 2007, AI2’s sample size has now …

Looking at the release schedule, this summer had the potential to be the culmination of a long-awaited watershed moment for Latino representation in mainstream entertainment, coming off of hits like The Last of Us and Wednesday and heading into the premieres of Flamin’ Hot and especially Blue Beetle (considered “the …

It wasn’t their job, until they made it their job. That’s the surprisingly innovative ethos behind Lionsgate’s Production Inclusion Coalition program, started by a group of physical and postproduction staffers during the early months of the pandemic. PIC includes a growing number of tangible action plans to widen and diversify …

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 …

Growing up in Ecuador, the pop culture I consumed was mainly imported from the U.S. and other Latin American countries. The films and TV shows were often sexist, racist and homophobic. The limited portrayal of LGBTQ+ characters in my culture made it challenging for me to find relatable representation. For …

Culture Shift is THR‘s new publication devoted to exploring and inspecting the present frontiers of inclusion within the media and leisure trade. Every bimonthly version will give subscribers the primary take a look at tales centering the experiences of individuals from traditionally excluded backgrounds, in addition to a compendium of different inclusion-themed …

Due to the unimaginable-a-year-ago dominance of Everything Everywhere All at Once and the notion bias during which deviations from the norm seem extra outsized than they really are, the 2023 Oscars is perhaps remembered as essentially the most Asian Academy Awards but. Winners of Asian descent — particularly, of Chinese …

A 12 months in the past, amid CODA’s groundbreaking run on the awards circuit, author/director Sian Heder steadily expressed her hopes that the movie’s success may very well be one of many “rocks that starts the avalanche” of the wealth of expertise that exists inside the Deaf neighborhood, heralding a …

For the previous two awards cycles, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has applied a “soft rollout” of its representation and inclusion standards, amassing demographic details about the contributors in entrance of and behind the digital camera for all Oscar finest image submissions earlier than subsequent season, when movies should meet …

Throughout his tenure as head of manufacturing at Columbia TriStar within the Nineteen Nineties, Chris Lee oversaw such Hollywood classics as Philadelphia, Jerry Maguire and As Good As It Will get. However behind the scenes, as the primary identified Asian American to steer manufacturing at a serious Hollywood studio, the …