Sundance’s Fifth Annual Latinx House to Feature Artists From ‘Ponyboi,’ ‘In the Summers’ (Exclusive)
The 2024 edition of The Latinx House at Sundance will feature filmmakers and castmembers from many of the Latino-centered films screening at the festival.
“When we launched The Latinx House in 2019, we were committed to honoring the long legacy that Latinx creatives have built at the Sundance Film Festival,” co-founder Olga Segura said in a statement. “Over the last five years, we have built a home that’s welcoming and accepting of the journeys being told and inclusive of the leaders who are shaping our culture.”
Featured Sundance projects at Latinx House include anthology series God Save Texas, represented by director Iliana Sosa; short film Border Hopper, represented by filmmaker and star Gabriela Ortega; and U.S. dramatic competition entries Ponyboi, represented by director Esteban Arango and writer/star/producer River Gallo, and filmmaker Alessandra Lacorazza’s In the Summers. The latter will be feted at an invite-only party hosted by...
“When we launched The Latinx House in 2019, we were committed to honoring the long legacy that Latinx creatives have built at the Sundance Film Festival,” co-founder Olga Segura said in a statement. “Over the last five years, we have built a home that’s welcoming and accepting of the journeys being told and inclusive of the leaders who are shaping our culture.”
Featured Sundance projects at Latinx House include anthology series God Save Texas, represented by director Iliana Sosa; short film Border Hopper, represented by filmmaker and star Gabriela Ortega; and U.S. dramatic competition entries Ponyboi, represented by director Esteban Arango and writer/star/producer River Gallo, and filmmaker Alessandra Lacorazza’s In the Summers. The latter will be feted at an invite-only party hosted by...
- 1/17/2024
- by Rebecca Sun
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A new study from nonprofit environmental firm Good Energy and the USC Norman Lear Center found few references to climate change and environmental crises in a survey of more than 37,000 scripts from 2016 to 2020.
The study aimed to track the level of “climate change representation” in mainstream scripted entertainment. The data showed that only 2.8 of 37,453 scripts analyzed used any “climate change keywords,” while only 0.6 featured the words “climate change.” Only 10 of stories that depicted “extreme weather events” tied the occurance to any form of climate change, while a mere 12 of those tied the problem to the use of fossil fuels.
CBS and HBO Max were cited as the broadcast and pay TV platforms with the highest rate of climate change-related scripted content, with CBS clocking in at 7.5 and HBO Max at 6.4. That compares with research indicating that some 40 of Americans live in countries that have been affected by extreme weather events.
The study aimed to track the level of “climate change representation” in mainstream scripted entertainment. The data showed that only 2.8 of 37,453 scripts analyzed used any “climate change keywords,” while only 0.6 featured the words “climate change.” Only 10 of stories that depicted “extreme weather events” tied the occurance to any form of climate change, while a mere 12 of those tied the problem to the use of fossil fuels.
CBS and HBO Max were cited as the broadcast and pay TV platforms with the highest rate of climate change-related scripted content, with CBS clocking in at 7.5 and HBO Max at 6.4. That compares with research indicating that some 40 of Americans live in countries that have been affected by extreme weather events.
- 10/12/2022
- by William Earl
- Variety Film + TV
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Lucie Arnaz and Gloria Calderón Kellett had very different upbringings.
The former was raised in Beverly Hills, daughter of TV comedy icons Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, and would go on to become an actress and filmmaker herself, creating a documentary about her parents, Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie in 1993 and appearing in the 2022 Amazon doc Lucy and Desi, directed by Amy Poehler. Calderón Kellett, meanwhile, grew up in Portland, Oregon, as the child of Cuban immigrants, and now serves as a television creator, having worked as showrunner on the One Day at a Time reboot at Netflix and Pop and, most recently, creating the Amazon series With Love.
The women have a key inspiration in common: Desi Arnaz, Lucie’s father and a trailblazing pioneer in Latin American representation on television. What follows is a discussion between the two on how...
Lucie Arnaz and Gloria Calderón Kellett had very different upbringings.
The former was raised in Beverly Hills, daughter of TV comedy icons Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, and would go on to become an actress and filmmaker herself, creating a documentary about her parents, Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie in 1993 and appearing in the 2022 Amazon doc Lucy and Desi, directed by Amy Poehler. Calderón Kellett, meanwhile, grew up in Portland, Oregon, as the child of Cuban immigrants, and now serves as a television creator, having worked as showrunner on the One Day at a Time reboot at Netflix and Pop and, most recently, creating the Amazon series With Love.
The women have a key inspiration in common: Desi Arnaz, Lucie’s father and a trailblazing pioneer in Latin American representation on television. What follows is a discussion between the two on how...
- 6/16/2022
- by Hilton Dresden
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Lyn Lear, Gloria Calderón Kellett and Bill Nye were among the over 300 guests who attended the launch event for Good Energy’s playbook for screenwriters at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles on Tuesday night.
The nonprofit organization’s new playbook titled “Good Energy: A Playbook for Screenwriting in the Age of Climate Change,” is a resource guide aimed at helping industry professionals integrate climate in the storylines of film and television projects.
Hosted by Good Energy and Bloomberg Philanthropies, the event took place at the museum’s fifth-floor Tea Room and Wilshire Terrance, where attendees enjoyed cocktails as the sun was setting over the L.A. skyline.
The night featured speeches by Lear, Good Energy founder Anna Jane Joyner, IllumiNative Founder Crystal Echo Hawk, Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Katherine Oliver and Center for Cultural Power founder Favianna Rodriguez.
As part of the research for the playbook, Good Energy...
The nonprofit organization’s new playbook titled “Good Energy: A Playbook for Screenwriting in the Age of Climate Change,” is a resource guide aimed at helping industry professionals integrate climate in the storylines of film and television projects.
Hosted by Good Energy and Bloomberg Philanthropies, the event took place at the museum’s fifth-floor Tea Room and Wilshire Terrance, where attendees enjoyed cocktails as the sun was setting over the L.A. skyline.
The night featured speeches by Lear, Good Energy founder Anna Jane Joyner, IllumiNative Founder Crystal Echo Hawk, Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Katherine Oliver and Center for Cultural Power founder Favianna Rodriguez.
As part of the research for the playbook, Good Energy...
- 4/21/2022
- by Ashley Hume
- Variety Film + TV
After a successful launch in May 2020, the Hollywood Climate Summit is back for its second annual edition presented on the interactive conference platform, Hopin.
This year’s summit, taking place during Climate Week, from September Thursday 23rd to Sunday 26th, will consist of four action-oriented days packed with digital, interactive programming and one-on-one networking, along with an in-person outdoor event, “Eco-Bash”, featuring local tribes and frontline activists, musical performance by actor/singer Lee Rodriguez, comedy by Pallavi Gunalan, a screening of the documentary Youth v Gov, directed by Christi Cooper, and Mc’d by comedian Kalen Allen, followed by a VIP zero-waste party presented by Earth Angel.
Presented by Netflix and NYU Los Angeles, the Hollywood Climate Summit will also include programming sponsored by the Nrdc, Sierra Club, Wild Elements Foundation, The Center For Cultural Power, Green Production Guide/PGA Green, Scriptation, British Film Commission, WithOthers, Can You Hear Us?...
This year’s summit, taking place during Climate Week, from September Thursday 23rd to Sunday 26th, will consist of four action-oriented days packed with digital, interactive programming and one-on-one networking, along with an in-person outdoor event, “Eco-Bash”, featuring local tribes and frontline activists, musical performance by actor/singer Lee Rodriguez, comedy by Pallavi Gunalan, a screening of the documentary Youth v Gov, directed by Christi Cooper, and Mc’d by comedian Kalen Allen, followed by a VIP zero-waste party presented by Earth Angel.
Presented by Netflix and NYU Los Angeles, the Hollywood Climate Summit will also include programming sponsored by the Nrdc, Sierra Club, Wild Elements Foundation, The Center For Cultural Power, Green Production Guide/PGA Green, Scriptation, British Film Commission, WithOthers, Can You Hear Us?...
- 9/20/2021
- Look to the Stars
It’s hard to read the news these days, as ever-deadlier fires rage in the west and more intense hurricanes batter the Gulf Coast, and our president shrugs his shoulders and says “It’s going to get cooler, you’ll see.” Which is why it’s a small miracle that I read something about climate change recently that actually made me feel good. All We Can Save, a new anthology (out September 22nd) co-edited by Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Dr. Katharine K. Wilkinson, is a compilation of essays and...
- 9/21/2020
- by Phoebe Neidl
- Rollingstone.com
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