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Michelle Obama, Regina King Among Speakers at 2024 CAA Amplify
Padma Lakshmi, Colin Kaepernick, Cord Jefferson and 'Beef' creator Lee Sung Jin will also head to Ojai for the annual summit June 10-12.
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Former UTA, BerlinRosen Execs Launch Equity-Focused Consultancy The Moonshot Company (Exclusive)
Kosha Eisenberg and Shruti Sehgal will specialize in BIPOC-founded brands in their work, which already includes entertainment and talent strategy for Joe Biden’s presidential reelection campaign.
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IllumiNative Expands Leadership Team, Launches Production Company
The Native woman-led racial and social justice organization has appointed Michael Johnson as president, Angel Charley as executive director and Jennifer Van der Heide as vice president of advocacy and engagement.
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Inevitable Foundation Announces $55K Fellowship for Disabled Filmmakers
The Visionary Fellowship, supported entirely by Netflix’s Fund for Creative Equity, is a yearlong program that will provide creatives everything they need to complete a short film and begin turning it into a first feature.
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Universal Studio Group Partners With Roybal School for “USG University” Panel Series
Each virtual talk dives deep into a scene from a USG-produced show for the benefit of the film and television magnet’s aspiring below-the-line students.
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Rideback Rise Taps Former Warner Bros. Exec as First-Ever CEO
Diana Mogollón will lead the nonprofit POC content accelerator, which is expanding to up to 15 fellows in its second year.
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Hollywood Commission Launches Online Tool to Report Workplace Misconduct
The DGA, WGA, Netflix, Amazon and The Kennedy/Marshall Company have already signed on to use MyConnext, which was developed in response to industry worker surveys.
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Study: White Actors No Longer Overindex in Streaming Movies
Meanwhile, white men continue to overindex as directors, even as streaming audiences become majority women and people of color.
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Why More Comedies Like ‘Babes’ Would “End Capitalism”
The moms behind the new friendship flick — Ilana Glazer, Michelle Buteau and Pamela Adlon — sound off on what’s hilarious about pregnancy and parenting and justice for men’s roles in these narratives.
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New ‘IP List’ Spotlights Books From Underrepresented Authors Available to Option
The index is the brainchild of Pathos Labs and is supported by the Nielsen Foundation.
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Oscar Winners, Olympians and Hello Kitty: A Weekend With Gold Gala
The gathering of Asian Pacific ultra-elite included honors given to Padma Lakshmi, Cynthia Erivo, Lucy Liu and HYBE chairman Bang Si-Hyuk, with attendees that included Renee Rapp, Halsey, W. Kamau Bell and Youn Yuh-jung.
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Netflix, Blackhouse Foundation Team for Nonfiction Producing Fellowship
The yearlong program will train five participants, who will each work on one of the streamer’s unscripted, documentary or sports productions.
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