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Producer Effie Brown: "People Didn't Want to Work With Me" After Calling Out Matt Damon on 'Project Greenlight' Diversity Issues (Guest Column)

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The producer reflects on the backlash she received in 2015 after arguing on-air with Matt Damon, an EP on Project Greenlight, a reality show that followed filmmakers as they directed features for the first time.

Damon admonished Brown that diversity is for “the casting of the film, not the casting of the show,” or behind the scenes. She responded with a sharp “Wow,” signaling the frustrations faced by people of color in the industry, the fallout of which she describes here: I’m grateful that it was me.

I’m grateful I had the common sense of my ancestors — my mother, my grandmother, my family — to know how to react in the moment because it could have gone many different ways.

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