Great article. I feel quite strongly about this issue and personally feel that fair representation has turned into a 'novelty' as you have said. I recently worked with an Asian director who was turned down for BAME funding because her co-writer was white. What ever happened to just telling a good story???

Screen Daily's Wendy Mitchell has written some great thoughts on Selma highlighting that it's lack of screeners is actually to blame:

"Casual observers don’t recognise just how much correlation there is between the major guild honorees and the Oscar nominees each year. They aren’t always perfect matches but they are very accurate indicators in most years (and the voters in the guilds can heavily overlap with AMPAS).

Selma wasn’t recognised at the Screen Actors Guild, the Directors Guild of America or the Producers Guild of America. Why? It emerges no screeners were sent to those all-important guilds (the film wasn’t eligible for the Writers Guild of America awards). Paramount had said there wasn’t time given when the film was delivered in November ." Full article at: http://www.screendaily.com/comment/selmas-bad-timing/5082017.article#

An interesting read and thanks for your thoughts Lakeisha.

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Great article. I feel quite strongly about this issue and personally feel that fair representation has turned into a 'novelty' as you have said. I recently worked with an Asian director who was turned down for BAME funding because her co-writer was white. What ever happened to just telling a good story???

Screen Daily's Wendy Mitchell has written some great thoughts on Selma highlighting that it's lack of screeners is actually to blame:

"Casual observers don’t recognise just how much correlation there is between the major guild honorees and the Oscar nominees each year. They aren’t always perfect matches but they are very accurate indicators in most years (and the voters in the guilds can heavily overlap with AMPAS).

Selma wasn’t recognised at the Screen Actors Guild, the Directors Guild of America or the Producers Guild of America. Why? It emerges no screeners were sent to those all-important guilds (the film wasn’t eligible for the Writers Guild of America awards). Paramount had said there wasn’t time given when the film was delivered in November ." Full article at: http://www.screendaily.com/comment/selmas-bad-timing/5082017.article#

An interesting read and thanks for your thoughts Lakeisha.

nelliemcquinn , Producer , 11/02/15 , 1,668 AP
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Great article...some valid points raised. Non white film makers need to continue making great films, developing and expanding

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- I agree Ioney, they most certainly do! Thank you for reading :)
  
  Lakeisha , Journalist , 24/01/15 , 1,425 AP
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