How One Film School Is Fighting to Get More Latinos in the Director’s Chair

Manuel Betancourt — Tue, 29 May 2018 21:05:58 +0000

As it readies to launch its first ever graduating class out into the world, the Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema in Brooklyn is sending one clear message to Hollywood: if you want to change the systemic barriers that keep certain groups out of the film industry, you need to invest and nurture a new kind

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These Two Schools Are Paving the Way For Hollywood’s Multicultural Future

Andrew S. Vargas — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 23:18:09 +0000

It doesn’t take a hashtag campaign like #OscarsSoWhite to figure out that filmmaking has long been a white man’s game. Between the enormous costs of producing a film and the uncertain professional prospects of a film degree, the barriers to entry for traditionally marginalized communities have been virtually insurmountable. That is, until low-cost digital technologies

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