The Oscars Best Animated Feature Category: How to Make it Work
Photo: The Oscars Best Animated Feature Category A Tendency to Play it Safe For the longest time, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences seemed very adamant about not caring much for animation when it came to their annual award show, the Academy Awards (now...
Brian Flores’ Lawsuit Vs NFL: Changing Hiring Practices in Sports & Institutional Racism in the Film Industry
Photo: Brian Flores Let’s All Get on the Same Page Here: ‘Institutional’-relating to or noting a policy, practice, or belief system that has been established as normative or customary throughout an institution or society ‘Racism’-a belief or doctrine that inherent...
Latin Identity and Inclusion in Hollywood, Should Antonio Banderas and Penelope Cruz Be Included?
Video Version of this Article Photo: Penelope Cruz and Antonio Banderas Inclusion is such a blurred ground in the entertainment industry because Hollywood often mixes and confuses cultural identities. Identity is defined as the fact of being who or what a person or...
Sofia Coppola and Kirsten Dunst’s ‘Marie Antoinette’: The Power of the Female Gaze
Photo: ‘Marie Antoinette’ A gentle dive into film theory and you will face the decades-old term “The Male Gaze” coined by Laura Mulvey- a feminist film theorist who challenged the established sexism that seethed through the film industry. Mulvey employed...
