Jaden Thompson Cate Blanchett and Coco Francini, who are business partners behind Dirty Films, are collaborating with Dr. Stacy L.
Smith and the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative to launch the Proof of Concept Accelerator Program. With support from Netflix’s Fund for Creative Equity, the program aims to identify filmmakers who promote the perspectives of women, trans and nonbinary people.
Per the latest annual report from Dr. Smith and the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, only 6% of the directors of the 1,600 top-grossing movies were women; moreover, less than one-third of all speaking characters in those same films were girls, women, trans or nonbinary people.
With these statistics in mind, Proof of Concept identifies and combats three major barriers facing directors from these underrepresented backgrounds: funding, mentorship and exposure.
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