The Golden Globes needs to be more inclusive, now. If you were following the Golden Globes last month, you know for yet another year, the HFPA ignored many performances and movies by Black creatives. We also learned that the HFPA had no Black correspondents. This was a huge issue and seems incredibly backward these days. Well, yesterday, a collective of Hollywood publicists sent the HFPA a letter demanding they become an inclusive organization, or risk losing access to all 100-plus PR firms clients. The letter, which you can read here, began, "As publicists we collectively represent the vast majority of artists in the entertainment industry. We call on the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to swiftly manifest profound and lasting change to eradicate the longstanding exclusionary ethos and pervasive practice of discriminatory behavior, unprofessionalism, ethical impropriety, and alleged financial corruption endemic to the HFPA, funded by Dick Clark Productions, MRC, NBCUniversal and Comcast." Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Tuesday, 16 March, 2021