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Diversity in Hollywood: BAFTA/LA's community outreach draws big crowds -- For an inner-city space like Helen Keller Park in Los Angeles, just a few years can make a major difference.
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Diversity in Hollywood: Imagen noms show more variety of roles, stories -- This year, the Imagen Foundation doles out its awards with even more gusto than in the past. "I am consistently amazed with the exponential growth in both the quantity and quality of the entries we receive each year," says Imagen founder Helen Hernandez.
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Diversity in Hollywood: Guest speakers to include Lindelof, Gordon -- The Producers Guild announced its fourth annual producing workshop, "The Power of Diversity," will be taking place throughout May and June.
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Diversity in Hollywood: Gaul's minorities have complained for years that they are under-represented in the TV and movie industries, both behind and in front of the cameras.
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Diversity in Hollywood: Italy, which has at least 2.4 million immigrants who account for 4% of the population, lags behind most of Western Europe in terms of integrating ethnic minorities in the media.
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Diversity in Hollywood: Immigration in Spain, though massive, has come late. Spanish media -- as the country at large -- still has to catch up with the phenom.
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Diversity in Hollywood: The Dutch got a wake-up call 18 months ago when filmmaker Theo Van Gogh was ritually killed on the streets of Amsterdam and Dutch politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali received death threats.
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Diversity in Hollywood: China has no ethnic diversity problem and that's official. Well it may sound like simple propaganda, but it is not completely way off the mark. Given that stance, China has no visible affirmative action or positive discrimination policies for the media.
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Diversity in Hollywood: On Mexican commercial TV it's hard to find anyone who really looks Mexican. Mexican telenovelas, by and large, use actors that fit the European mold.
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Diversity in Hollywood: With over 1,600 languages and dialects in India -- not to mention myriad of religions -- it is difficult for TV broadcasters to fulfill the government's mandate to create programs that project cultural diversity.
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Diversity in Hollywood: In Oz multi-lingo TV and radio pubcaster Special Broadcasting Service, now 31 years old, was founded to serve the country's multicultural population --- a remit relaxed in recent years as web has sought popularity with sports programming.
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Diversity in Hollywood: The U.S. has enjoyed enormous respect worldwide for its image as an open society: permeable and receptive to new ideas, new products, new peoples.
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Diversity in Hollywood: Latino, Asian orgs give ABC top grade -- ABC leads all networks when it comes to expanding diversity both onscreen and behind the camera, according to the annual report cards released by a multiethnic media coalition.
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Diversity in Hollywood: Net plays race card with new reality show -- FX has quietly picked up to series a reality show exploring race relations from R.J. Cutler and Ice Cube's Cube Vision Prods. Cutler, who last teamed with FX for the Morgan Spurlock docu series "30 Days" for FX, will exec produce the project alongside Cube Vision's Cube and Matt Alvarez.
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Diversity in Hollywood: Allen plans to make an offer, aims to secure $2.2 bil for co. -- It's a long way from "Real People," the magazine show Byron Allen co-hosted in the early '80s. Allen spent most of the 1990s repositioning himself as a mini syndication mogul. Now he wants to buy Paxson's neglected stable of TV stations and turn it into a network targeted at African-Americans.
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Diversity in Hollywood: Perry's pic nabs target aud: black women -- "Tyler who?" was an oft-heard question in Hollywood last week, after Tyler Perry's $5 million film "Diary of a Mad, Black Woman" grossed an impressive $22 million its opening weekend, pushing the Will Smith starrer "Hitch" out of first place at the box office.
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Diversity in Hollywood: Acad softens color barrier with this year's noms -- Has the film biz's perceived color barrier officially crumbled for good? NAACP Hollywood bureau executive director Vicangelo Bulluck on Tuesday said, "It is a great day and everyone should be proud -- not just African Americans but the entire creative community. Hollywood has come a long way since 'Birth of a Nation.' "
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Diversity in Hollywood: Latino characters limited to 'George Lopez' -- The networks have been slow to reflect the changing demos in major cities like Los Angeles and New York, according to a study released Tuesday by UCLA.
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Diversity in Hollywood: 'Incremental' change cited at b'cast nets -- The major broadcast networks received mixed grades Thursday, as Latino and Asian-American media groups released their annual TV diversity report cards.
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Diversity in Hollywood: Minorities losing the most jobs, SAG sez -- A study by SAG reveals that the number of theatrical TV and feature roles available to actors has declined for the third year in a row, down a whopping 17% from 2000.