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Cate Blanchett on Recruiting Lily Gladstone, Chloé Zhao, Greta Gerwig and More to Support Filmmaker Accelerator: ‘They Felt the Urgency’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Chloé Zhao, Emma Corrin, Eva Longoria, Greta Gerwig, Jane Campion, Janicza Bravo, Lily Gladstone and Lilly Wachowski to support filmmaker initiative.
The program was announced last December, with Blanchett and her Dirty Films partner Coco Francini teaming up with Dr. Stacy Smith, founder of the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative and supported by the Netflix Fund for Creative Equity to tackle the ongoing disparities facing these communities in the entertainment business. Joining them in the fight against these regressions and gaps are Gladstone, Chloé Zhao, Emma Corrin, Eva Longoria, Greta Gerwig, Jane Campion, Janicza Bravo and Lilly Wachowski, who will serve on the selection committee and determine the 8 filmmakers who will take part in the program. The report in question revealed that less than one-quarter of 1% of more than 62,000 speaking characters in 1,600 movies were held by Native Americans, thus underscoring the importance of Gladstone’s role in the film and the “erasure and discrimination against” Indigenous people and their stories.
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