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The Black List is opening submissions for six diversity lists.

XYZ Films has taken global distribution rights excluding Canada.

EXCLUSIVE: XYZ Films has taken global distribution rights, excluding Canada, on the eco-thriller The Well, the first narrative feature by Academy Award-nominated documentary director Hubert Davis. Recently filmed in Hamilton, Canada, The Well features a Canadian cast, including veterans such as Sheila McCarthy (Women Talking) and Arnold Pinnock (The Porter), who also executive produce. Shailyn …

Surpassing 10 years of developing emerging writers, CAPE (Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment) has selected its latest CAPE New Writers Fellowship class.

All-American Girl and Fresh Off the Boat) to, well, a handful of major projects in film and TV each year. But more significant is the interdisciplinary coalition of Asian Americans behind the scenes who are finding strength in numbers and making their collective voice heard. And, ironically, they have that racist Oscar joke to thank for bringing them together. "Sometimes you need this galvanizing force," says producer Janet Yang, recalling the shock of hearing the jokes and their implication t...

Rich Polk/Getty Image; Courtesy of MRC Entetainment ; Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images Shes partnering with A-Major Media and M88 for a topical podcast about Asian American civil rights and a table read of the feature screenplay Hold Still, Vincent, with an eye toward a film adaptation. Vincent Chin was beaten to death with a baseball bat 39 years ago, a galvanizing incident for the modern Asian American civil rights movement but an event that has been lost to history for most outside the community...