Exclusive: WME has unveiled the 2024 lineup for Futurefest, a student short film showcase in its second year, which is taking place today and on September 11 at the agency’s Beverly Hills offices.
The screening series, focused on diverse filmmakers, features master’s student shorts from Columbia, USC, NYU, AFI, and Harvard, with 10 to screen in total.
Among the filmmakers highlighted is Harvard’s Wesley Wang, who as we were first to report, has been set to helm a feature adaptation of his viral short nothing, except everything. for TriStar, with Darren Aronofsky’s Protozoa producing.
Check out the full WME Futurefest lineup below.
September 4
You Are Seen. directed by Wesley Wang (Harvard)
Logline: Influencers on a Hamptons trip are terrorized by a mysterious stalker.
The Truck directed by Elizabeth Rao (NYU)
Logline: In the heat of young love, impulsive Chinese American teen Jo and her Iranian American boyfriend Arash set...
The screening series, focused on diverse filmmakers, features master’s student shorts from Columbia, USC, NYU, AFI, and Harvard, with 10 to screen in total.
Among the filmmakers highlighted is Harvard’s Wesley Wang, who as we were first to report, has been set to helm a feature adaptation of his viral short nothing, except everything. for TriStar, with Darren Aronofsky’s Protozoa producing.
Check out the full WME Futurefest lineup below.
September 4
You Are Seen. directed by Wesley Wang (Harvard)
Logline: Influencers on a Hamptons trip are terrorized by a mysterious stalker.
The Truck directed by Elizabeth Rao (NYU)
Logline: In the heat of young love, impulsive Chinese American teen Jo and her Iranian American boyfriend Arash set...
- 9/4/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
As Hispanic Heritage Month continues in the United States, a new report from the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative assesses the state of Hispanic and Latino representation in Hollywood’s top-grossing films.
The full study will be released next month, examining 1,600 top-grossing films released from 2007 to 2022 and more than 69,000 speaking characters, with qualitative data about how those Latino and Hispanic characters are presented in films, including whether they “stereotype or stigmatize” the community. It’s the third study analyzing Hispanic and Latino representation from the Initiative’s researchers, led by founder Dr. Stacy L. Smith.
According to the report, Hispanic/Latino actors filled just 10 leading or co-lead roles across last year’s 100 top-grossing films, and eight of those 10 roles went to Hispanic/Latina actors. In the 16-year span studied, just 76 actors filled lead or co-lead roles; 44 were Hispanic/Latina; and five were Hispanic/Latinas aged 45 and older.
Overall, the study showed...
The full study will be released next month, examining 1,600 top-grossing films released from 2007 to 2022 and more than 69,000 speaking characters, with qualitative data about how those Latino and Hispanic characters are presented in films, including whether they “stereotype or stigmatize” the community. It’s the third study analyzing Hispanic and Latino representation from the Initiative’s researchers, led by founder Dr. Stacy L. Smith.
According to the report, Hispanic/Latino actors filled just 10 leading or co-lead roles across last year’s 100 top-grossing films, and eight of those 10 roles went to Hispanic/Latina actors. In the 16-year span studied, just 76 actors filled lead or co-lead roles; 44 were Hispanic/Latina; and five were Hispanic/Latinas aged 45 and older.
Overall, the study showed...
- 10/9/2023
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
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