A group of diverse and under-represented storytellers are coming together at the Toronto Film Festival to make the Canadian entertainment industry less white, as their newly-launched Independent Media Producers Association of Cinematic Talent looks to advance Black, Indigenous and People of Color industry professionals.
Red11 Productions’ Samantha Kaine says Impact emerged from a loose coalition of indie producers left marginalized in a disproportionately White Canadian film and TV industry. “I’ve been working in this industry for over ten years and the doors have been closed to me. There were opportunities I felt I should have had, when it ...
Red11 Productions’ Samantha Kaine says Impact emerged from a loose coalition of indie producers left marginalized in a disproportionately White Canadian film and TV industry. “I’ve been working in this industry for over ten years and the doors have been closed to me. There were opportunities I felt I should have had, when it ...
- 9/11/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A group of diverse and under-represented storytellers are coming together at the Toronto Film Festival to make the Canadian entertainment industry less white, as their newly-launched Independent Media Producers Association of Cinematic Talent looks to advance Black, Indigenous and People of Color industry professionals.
Red11 Productions’ Samantha Kaine says Impact emerged from a loose coalition of indie producers left marginalized in a disproportionately White Canadian film and TV industry. “I’ve been working in this industry for over ten years and the doors have been closed to me. There were opportunities I felt I should have had, when it ...
Red11 Productions’ Samantha Kaine says Impact emerged from a loose coalition of indie producers left marginalized in a disproportionately White Canadian film and TV industry. “I’ve been working in this industry for over ten years and the doors have been closed to me. There were opportunities I felt I should have had, when it ...
- 9/11/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Participants asked to make “purposeful and substantive” commitments to ”visual sovereignty”, hiring, and ongoing learning.
A coalition of more than 35 Canadian independent producers and production companies has called on the industry to tackle systemic racism and raised more than CA $160,000 to support traditionally under-represented filmmakers.
Developed in consultation with Racial Equity Media Collective and other partners, the group has launched a Producers Pledge to recognise black, indigenous, and people of colour (Bipoc) producers and creators of all genders and sexual identities, who it notes have “historically been, and are presently, vastly underfunded by cultural institutions”.
The Pledge seeks to encourage...
A coalition of more than 35 Canadian independent producers and production companies has called on the industry to tackle systemic racism and raised more than CA $160,000 to support traditionally under-represented filmmakers.
Developed in consultation with Racial Equity Media Collective and other partners, the group has launched a Producers Pledge to recognise black, indigenous, and people of colour (Bipoc) producers and creators of all genders and sexual identities, who it notes have “historically been, and are presently, vastly underfunded by cultural institutions”.
The Pledge seeks to encourage...
- 6/26/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
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