{"id":169,"date":"2016-08-15T12:33:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T16:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2016\/08\/15\/when-happens-when-film-crews-lack-diversity-too\/"},"modified":"2016-08-15T12:33:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T16:33:00","slug":"when-happens-when-film-crews-lack-diversity-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2016\/08\/15\/when-happens-when-film-crews-lack-diversity-too\/","title":{"rendered":"When happens when film crews lack diversity, too?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tWe know that the film industry has visible diversity problems, from directing to acting. We can point to the lack of racial diversity among the Oscar acting nominees as a glaring problem, but less obviously, behind-the-camera craft roles like sound and editing suffer from both subtle and overt racism.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2016\/artisans\/features\/below-the-line-diversity-racism-artisans-1201833014\/\"><i>Variety<\/i> recently ran a cover story<\/a> about what they&#8217;ve termed #ArtisansSoWhite, the white male dominance of the technical side of the film industry. Their article includes a number of troubling anecdotes, not just of racial imbalance but outright hostility. One visual effects supervisor even recounted having his skills questioned by someone who asserted he was a diversity hire.<\/p>\n<p>This has implications for mentoring opportunities and the type of work available to non-white artisans; one interviewee noticed that she had worked overwhelmingly on films about African-Americans, exclusively  slotted into those films by producers.<\/p>\n<p><i>Variety<\/i>&#8216;s expos\u00e9 is long, disconcerting, and worth a read for those interested in where the industry needs to improve.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We know that the film industry has visible diversity problems, from directing to acting. We can point to the lack of racial diversity among the Oscar acting nominees as a glaring problem, but less obviously, behind-the-camera craft roles like sound and editing suffer from both subtle and overt racism. Variety recently ran a cover story [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[86,212],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-controversial","tag-links-of-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}