Our latest film, The Blue Jay
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Logline: A Japanese American incarcerated on a reservation during World War II finds a friendship in a Mohave tribal member who helps him fight for his civil rights.
IMDb and Prime Video hosted the “Authentically Successful” panel, featuring a discussion between community leaders who are paving the way for authentic and inclusive productions. Panelists included: Alex Schmider, director of Transgender Representation at GLAAD; Andria Wilson Mirza, director of ReFrame; Crystal Echo Hawk, founder and executive director of IllumiNative; Kyle Bowser, senior vice president of the NAACP Hollywood Bureau, and Nic Novicki, founder of the Easterseals Disability Film Challenge. The panel was moderated by Latasha Gillespie, global head of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility for Amazon Studios and Prime Video, with an introduction from Nikki Santoro, chief operating officer of IMDb. 💪🏽
Today is #LatinaEqualPay Day. Latina women who work full time, year round, and part time earn only 54 cents for every $1 earned by a white male. Take a stand against pay discrimination & occupational segregation! We need #LatinaEqualPay for #Latinas everywhere.
The #wagegap robs Latina workers of appx ONE MILLION DOLLARS over the course of a 40 year career. We need #LatinaEqualPay NOW!
A guide to #LatinaEqualPay:
💪 support Latina leadership
🗳️ vote for equity-based legislation
🗣️ invite Latina women to the table when making decisions
🎬 Hire more Latinas in non-traditional roles
The flooding on social media of these images continues and we fully support it! Makes us proud to see so much brown beauty represented on the big screen and most importantly working with other amazing actors of color. ❤️ Thank you #ryancoogler ! #wakandaforever #diversitymatters 🇲🇽 #Namora #Namor #tenochhuerta #mabelcadena 🎥
A new Nielsen study shows representation for people with disabilities remains low.
Today, people with disabilities are 34% more likely than the general population to feel there isn’t enough inclusion of their identity group in media, and more than 50% say the portrayals they see inaccurately represent their individual identity groups.
The report analyzed the representation of disabled characters on film and TV shows released from 1918 to 2022. The titles came from a Nielsen database that included about 164,000 films and TV shows that premiered over the past century. Of those, about 4.2 percent, or 6,895 titles, were tagged as having significant disability themes or content.
For perspective, 26% of the adults in the United States have a physical or psychological disability.
Read more: /insights/2022/closing-the-inclusion-gap-for-people-with-disabilities/
Thank you to the Down Syndrome Association of Los Angeles for including us in their newsletter and recognizing our work and dedication to #diversity. #DSALA #downsyndrome #actors #inclusion #equality #differentabled @zachary21ds@theangelohouston
Congrats to all of our directors of our latest client project. All five of them brought a unique perspective and their vision for each episode was truly distinctive and special. ✨️👏 @selenamoshell@carlosciurlizza@calibel323@virtic_emil and Dikega Hadnot (Names in order of photos/episodes shot) #diversity #directors #inclusion #women #lgbtq #Latinx #asianamerican #africanamerican #filmmakers
We had the great pleasure of production consulting for @bwtrfilm written and directed by @itselivazquez produced by @bigmoodlauren 🎥 Tonight it premieres at @laliff_ 🎟 as part of the Inclusion Fellowship- Afro Latino cohort in partnership with #Netflix. We are rooting for Eli, Lauren and all other filmmakers who were part of this awesome fellowship. 🎬
