Friday, November 23, 2018
Jason Blum isn't hiring white dudes for his 8 Amazon movies
www.fastcompany.com: Producer Jason Blum is making good on his promise to hire directors who aren’t white males. On Wednesday, it was announced that his film and TV production company, Blumhouse Productions, made a deal with Amazon Studios to produce a series of eight feature-length thrillers that will all be made by “underrepresented” filmmakers. That includes Asians, African-Americans, women, and essentially any demographic that veers from the typical résumé of a Blumhouse writer and director: white dude.
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I love this. This is the kind of real action that we need to see happening, a concerted effort to actually make a difference and break from the norms of white male privilege. I have seen so many articles lately that talk about the lack of action and the home who are still suffering while nothing is really being done outside of voiced support. There is even a new commercial that was released by Secret in which a diverse group of women sing a song about how they would rather be paid, that the support has been amazing but that the actions from that support are even more important, in diversity and inclusion and in bridging the pay gap. It's really heartening to see an article like this that shows that there are people doing their part to do more than just say they support women and minorities.
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