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Lucy Liu Talks About Racism in Hollywood

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Lucy Liu graces the cover of online fashion magazine, Net-A-Porter's Graphic Issue. Liu discusses some of the usual interview tropes--her sense of style, relationship status and her hit CBS show Elementary, where she plays Joan Watson--a decidedly modern and most interesting twist on the typical Sherlock Holmes story.

By Kerensa Cadenas
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May 15, 2013 1:00 PM
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Interview with Nancy Buirski - Director of The Loving Story

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By Melissa Silverstein
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December 7, 2012 2:00 PM
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Cross Post: Sisters in Cinema: Where are the Black Women Film Directors?

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Last week, the Twitterverse was gifted a priceless nugget when film director Ava DuVernay and her guild, AFFRM, released the second trailer for her anticipated movie, Middle of Nowhere. The acclaimed project, which highlights the women and families that mass incarceration leaves behind, earned DuVernay the coveted Sundance Film Festival award for Best Director. Around the globe, women rejoiced; in a male-dominated industry, it is rare for a woman to be bestowed with such an outward validation for her work. After all, women “comprised just 18 percent of all directors, executive producers, producers, writers, cinematographers and editors working on the top 250 domestic grossing films in 2011,” according to the Center for Study of Women in TV and Film.

By Evette Dionne
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August 1, 2012 12:06 PM
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Guest Post: Trouble in Hollywood - Hunger Games Fans Resort to Racist Tweets

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The first installment of the highly anticipated The Hunger Games trilogy finally made its way to the silver screen, earning an historic $155 million its opening weekend. While fans cheered on Katniss Everdreen—the strong and self-sufficient blue-eyed, blond hair Anglo heroine fighting for her survival, others were disturbed by the casting of Rue, a 13-year-old-girl also competing in the futuristic gladiator-type games. Their distress wasn't because the adorable Amandla Stenberg's acting was subpar—it was because of the color of her skin.

By Mariana Ashley
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March 30, 2012 10:45 AM
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The LA Times Confirms What We Already Know - The Academy is Old, White and Male

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For some reason the folks that run the Academy have made it their business to keep the membership a secret. You kind of know who has recently been asked to be a member because they now release lists of people given invitations, but you really don't know who the majority of the 5,765 members are. They want it to seem like a secret society, but it reminds me more of a typical frat where they don't want the names to be revealed because then they would actually have to explain how unrepresentative they are.

By Melissa Silverstein
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February 20, 2012 12:20 PM
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Hollywood is So Racist That Even George Lucas Can't Get a Movie Made

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George Lucas is rolling out his new film Red Tails about the Tuskegee Airmen and he went on The Daily Show to talk about how hard it was to get the film made. He didn't mince words when talking about why he couldn't get a distributor for the film.

By Melissa Silverstein
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January 11, 2012 11:20 AM
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Hollywood Feminist of the Day: George Clooney

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George Clooney and Viola Davis (who are friends!) together cover the current issue of EW. Davis continues to talk about race issues and women and revealed in the interview that The Help was her first lead role.

By Melissa Silverstein
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January 9, 2012 12:30 PM
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Trailer Watch: Slaying the Dragon Reloaded: Asian Women in Hollywood and Beyond

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By Melissa Silverstein
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March 30, 2011 1:34 AM
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Paramount Pictures Has a Gender (and Race) Problem

The folks at Racebending who advocate for just and equal opportunities in film and TV, have been tracking race issues related to the recently released film The Last Airbender. While doing their research they have revealed some disturbing trends at Paramount Studios, the studio which released the film.

By Melissa Silverstein
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July 14, 2010 3:37 AM
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Interview with Sandra Laing- Real Life Subject of Skin

Skin is the heartbreaking true story of Sandra Laing (played by Sophie Okonedo) as a woman with black skin born to white parents in apartheid S. Africa. She is a white girl who looked black. As a young girl she knew she looked different but her biggest problems began when she showed up to school. They couldn't and wouldn't believe she was white, and were of course convinced that her mother (Alice Krige) had an affair with a black man instead of the fact that maybe somewhere in her family's past there was actually mixed race blood. This poor girl was just torn between two very different worlds. The place she felt safest and most comfortable was amongst people who looked like her, so she left her family to live in the black community. Her family then broke all ties with her because they just couldn't believe their white daughter would rather live with black people. The whole thing just broke my heart. This is a small film that makes you really think about race and how much racism hurts. Skin opens today in NY and LA.

By Melissa Silverstein
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October 30, 2009 3:16 AM
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