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Latinos, Long Dismissed in Hollywood, Push to Make Voices Heard

The Untitled Latinx Project is one of the groups trying to change that. Last year, the women partnered with Franklin Leonard and his company, The Black List, which aims to promote the best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood, to create the inaugural Latinx TV List. It showcases one-hour and half-hour original pilots written by at least one Latino writer and featuring a Latino or Latin American character in a prominent role. The top three finishers landed deals with the streaming service Hulu. Many secured agency representation.
We found 10 great writers who just happen to be Latinx who are just as good as anybody else that is already as a professional working writer, Mr. Leonard said.
Advocates say that findings like that demonstrate how Hollywoods issue is not a lack of creative voices to choose from but a lack of executives willing to take a chance and nurture new talent.
If people are as committed to diversity and inclusion as they say they are, then they would make different choices, Ms. Calderón Kellett said. Thats why Tanya and I are pretty loud about talking about the inequality that we see consistently and trying to call for some real change.
Ms. Saracho, for one, recognizes that without Ms. Fernandez at Starz, Vida never would have happened. Who knows how she championed me and what battles she had to fight that I never saw, said Ms. Saracho, adding that Ms. Fernandez also encouraged her to direct. Thats what happens when you have one of you in the castle.
But Ms. Fernandez left Starz last year for a job running the television department at Macro, a production and finance company intended to bolster voices of color. In addition to developing new shows with writers of color, she is also grooming executives of color who she hopes will one day land decision-making spots at the studios.read more

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