diversity
Ensemble nominations for the Screen Actors Guild Awards highlight diversity in both film and television, including nods for "Beasts of No Nation," ''Straight Outta Compton" and "Orange is the New Black." Yet, individual nominations, especially for movies, remained largely white - only adding to...
Recognizing the fundamental role that a “first break” in the television business can play to increase diversity, the Directors Guild of America (DGA) today issued the results of a six-year analysis of the gender and ethnic diversity of directors who received their first assignments in episodic...
The Directors Guild of America released its annual report analyzing the ethnicity and gender of directors hired to direct primetime episodic television across broadcast, basic cable, premium cable, and high budget original content series made for the Internet. ...
DDB North America, part of Omnicom Group, has hired Julius Dunn to serve as director of talent. Based in New York, he will report directly to Mark O’Brien, president of DDB North America. In this new role, Dunn will be responsible for executing the agency’s talent...
The government has yet to respond to the American Civil Liberties Union's allegations of discrimination against female filmmakers, but Hollywood is certainly talking about it.
More than 1,700 industry professionals have signed a petition supporting...
This year's Cannes Film Festival is about halfway through, but one thing is already clear: This festival belongs to les femmes.
From the word go, this year's Cannes has been dominated by women and debate about gender equality in the movie industry....
When writer-producer Marti Noxon, "Gone Girl" author Gillian Flynn and a studio executive met with a potential star for the upcoming TV adaptation of another Flynn novel, the actress was struck by something unusual.
"I don't think I've ever had a...
Women are the talk of the Cannes Film Festival, where debate rages about why they are so plentiful in front of the camera and so scarce behind it.
Long criticized for its dearth of female directors, Cannes opened this year with a film by a woman for...
The Directors Guild of America says networks and studios are to blame for the "deplorable" dearth of female directors in Hollywood, following a call by the American Civil Liberties Union for an investigation into the industry's "systemic failure" to hire female...
The ACLU is asking federal and California civil rights agencies to investigate what it calls "the systemic failure" to hire female directors in the entertainment industry.
The ACLU of Southern California and the national ACLU Women's Rights Project...