Keep it diverse. The buzzword in Hollywood over the past few years has been diversity. Like anything in life, though, it's easier to talk about change than to effect it, and particularly so in an industry that is, to paraphrase Oscar Wilde, so deeply superficial. It's one thing to treat diversity as a seasonal trend and yet quite another to bring anything like systemic change in terms of hiring practices to an industry that is still hidebound to outmoded traditions and dangerous ways of doing business. While the #MeToo movement brought long-overdue attention to entrenched sexual harassment (and campaigns like April Reign's #OscarSoWhite turned a spotlight on the biggest award ceremony of them all) Hollywood made "no progress in on-screen diversity" in 2017, according to a recent study from USC. Another look at the industry from UCLA found women and minorities underrepresented in many categories. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Wednesday, 26 September, 2018