Feb 23, 2016
The United States may be a melting pot, but when it comes to diversity, the films and television shows it produces are missing a lot of ingredients. From the board rooms of major media companies li...
The USC report, which faults the film business for being a “straight, white, boy’s club,” should add fuel to the fire. It finds that only 3.4% of film directors were female, 17.1% of broadcast directors, 15.1% of cable directors and 11.8% of streaming directors. Minorities were similarly excluded from directing work. Under-represented ethnic or racial groups directed only 12.7% of films, 9.6% of broadcast programs, 16.8% of cable series and 11.4% of streaming shows.
No? Really?
