Industry Reports & Reference

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[alert]“Getting Played” dir. Kathleen Antonia

Kathleen Antonia is an actor and director in San Francisco, CA, and she was also a featured panelist for the SF Public Library’s Black Heritage Film Series (in partnership with the International Black Women’s Film Festival). Ms. Antonia’s film “Getting Played” was an Honorable Mention at the 2010 International Black Women’s Film Festival.[/alert]

The International Black Women’s Film Festival has compiled a comprehensive and helpful list of reports and research papers that cover the representation of Blacks in film, television and media.

A credit link is always included with the sponsoring organization’s name. All of the reports are a PDF or a link to a web-site.

[alert][edmc id=”3450”] FREE Download: Why You Should Care About the Latest Directors Guild of America Report (PDF)[/edmc][/alert]

Reports & Research

• DGA Report Assesses Director Diversity in Hiring Practices for Episodic Television, Directors Guild of America, September 2012
• [edmc id=”3450”]Why You Should Care About the Latest Report from the Directors Guild of America: Analysis 2012, the International Black Women’s Film Festival, October 2012[/edmc]
• Out of Focus and Out of Sync: Take 3, A Report on the Film and Television Industry (PDF), NAACP, November 2003
• Women & Minorities on Television, SAG-AFTRA, 1993 (legacy report)
• The African American Television Report, SAG-PIACF, 2000
• Testimony on Hollywood Diversity Hearing on the Proposed Combination of Comcast and NBC/Universal, Dr. Darnell M. Hunt Director, Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, June 7, 2010
• Film Festivals / Film Festival Research: Thematic, Annotated Bibliography – Second Edition, Compiled for the Film Festival Research Network by Skadi Loist and Marijke de Valck (ISSN 1613-7477)

Articles & Books of Interest

• “It’s a Good Time to Be a Black Woman…Except on TV,” JEZEBEL.com, 2012
• “Oscar voters overwhelmingly white, male,” Los Angeles Times, February 2012
• “NBC Universal Criticized for Not Being Diverse Enough After Comcast Deal,” The Hollywood Reporter, 2012
• “Facts & Statistics About Women in Film and Hollywood,” Women and Hollywood (IndieWire.com)
• “Black Women and the Hollywood Shuffle,” TheRoot.com, August 2010
• “SAG Stats: Diversity Lags,” Variety.com, October 2009
• Black Image in the White Mind: Media & Race in America, 2001
• “Hollywood’s Invisible Love Interest: The Overweight Black Woman,” Kristen Savali, Frugivore.com, October 2012
• Towards a filmmaker bill of rights for festivals, POV Magazine, November 2012

Take Action

• Directors Guild of America - Diversity Steering Committees and Initiatives
• SAG-AFTRA Diversity FAQs
• Writers Guild of America, West – Diversity Department
• Hollywood Diversity Network
• Organization of Black Screenwriters