Hollywood simply needs to do better.
A new report commissioned by the NAACP Hollywood Bureau in collaboration with Dr. Darnell Hunt, Dean of Social Sciences at UCLA, and MEE (Motivational Educational Entertainment) Productions, was released recently, stating that the lack of Black executives in Hollywood has led to damaging depictions of Black people on TV and in movies.
It also states that the “absence of Black control of media has rendered the community vulnerable to a host of debilitating impressions, ranging from negligent disregard to deliberate degradation.”
The report is titled “The Black Executive: A Partial Solution to the Psycho-Social Consequences of Media Distortion.”
For statistical evidence, Hunt pulls data from the 2020 Hollywood Diversity Report from UCLA, which found that in 2020, 91% of film studio CEOs were white, and 82% of them were male. In management, 93% of studio senior management teams were white and 80% of them were male. Building on that, 86% of studio unit heads were white and 59% male.
Author: Jason Hellerman
This article comes from No Film School and can be read on the original site.
