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Get to Know our Member Spotlight: Nigel Holmes
Each month we highlight a Production Lot member through our Member Spotlights, which include a featured position on the Production Lot homepage and a Q&A to help the rest of our community get to know our Spotlight member better. This month we’re highlighting Nigel Holmes! Meet Nigel Holmes Well hello. I am Nigel Holmes.…
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What the Success of "Sinners" Means for the Future of Storytelling
The incredible box office (and streaming) success of Ryan Coogler’s Sinners proves that audiences want original ideas from historically excluded storytellers — and that they’re willing to pay for them. Sinners (Warner Bros.) “What is impressing everyone is how deeply the movie is connecting and bringing audiences back for…
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Copyright laws didn't anticipate AI/LLMs - will copyright soon be meaningless?
This ruling in favor of Anthropic’s claim that the fair use doctrine allows for use of copyrighted materials to train large language models (LLMs) is either a very narrow view of “fair use”—OR points to the idea that copyright laws just didn’t anticipate LLMs. Lawyer friends— Will copyright laws be amended to address LLMs?…
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Attn: POC Writers! RISE Fellowship application window open til June 30!
Less than two weeks left -- are you ready to RISE? RISE - Year 3. Applications open on Coverfly now through June 30th. Rideback RISE is a non-profit accelerator dedicated to supporting mid-career POC artists and creators to create commercial film and television across genres. Storytellers (“Fellows”) gain access to an…
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Celebrating AANHPI Heritage Month
Remember the first time you felt truly seen on TV or film? It’s a wonderful feeling. Validation. Confirmation. Community. For many of us from historically excluded communities, that first time seeing someone who looks like us, who speaks like us, feels like us, and moves through the world like us is a watershed moment. A…
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Looking for a writer? Resource for diverse writers lists
Hi Producers - I thought it could be useful for us to create a resource thread for anyone looking for representative voices for our projects. Think Tank for Inclusion and Equity (writeinclusion.org) is a group of working TV writers looking to help create positive change and offer tools to increase diversity in writers…
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#WriteInclusion Factsheets: Tips for Accurate Representation
The stories and characters TV writers create impact popular culture narratives, entertain audiences, and change minds. That’s why TTIE has partnered with a number of social justice researchers and organizations to produce #WriteInclusion Factsheets: Tips for Authentic Representation. While these factsheets could never…
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Writing about Migrants: TTIE's #WriteInclusion Factsheet
TTIE has partnered with a number of social justice researchers and organizations to produce #WriteInclusion Factsheets: Tips for Authentic Representation. The #WriteInclusion Factsheet: Tips for Accurate Representation of Migrants explores topics related to people who move from one country or place to another, including…
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Writing about African Americans: TTIE's #WriteInclusion Factsheet
TTIE has partnered with a number of social justice researchers and organizations to produce #WriteInclusion Factsheets: Tips for Authentic Representation. African Americans are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of Africa’s Black racial groups. The term typically refers to descendants of…