along with his brother. you re watching bbc news, now its time for women in hollywood: the producers a warm welcome, i am kim chakanetsa. i have come to hollywood to the women in film headquarters where i am joined by keri putnam and stephanie allain, two women who are working to reshape the industry. they are both part of an initiative founded and led by women in film and the sundance institute called reframe. the aim is to advance gender equity. keri putnam is a film executive and producer and the founder of putnam pictures. she served for 11 years as the ceo of the sundance institute, which runs the sundance film festival. prior to that, she worked as a senior executive at miramax and hbo and is also the co founder of reframe. welcome. thank you, it s great to be here. stephanie allain is a film producer and writer and the newly elected co president of the producers guild of america the first woman of colour to hold the position. stephanie served nine years as vice presi
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which was nearly destroyed by fire four years ago. the restoration is expected to be finished on schedule. those are your headlines. you re watching bbc news. now it s women in hollywood: the producers. a warm welcome. i have come to hollywood to the women in film headquarters, where i m joined by keri putnam and stephanie allain, two women who are working to reshape the industry. they are both part of an initiative founded and led by women in film and the sundance institute called reframe. the aim is to advance gender equity. keri putnam is a film executive and producer and the founder of putnam pictures, she has served for 11 years as the ceo of the sundance institute, which runs the sundance film festival. prior to that, she worked as a senior executive at miramax and hbo and is also the co founder. welcome. thank you, it s great to be here. stephanie allain is a film producer and writer and the newly elected copresident of the producers guild of america the first woman
decision making process doesn t get made by a group of people that reflects the full world we live in, there will be unconscious bias. there will be a voice missing to be able to say, i m interested in that. i care about that, did you think about this? and i would say the same if there were no men in the decision making process. this isn t about an instead, it s about an expansion and it is about having rooms of decision makers that reflect the world. i think what is lost without that is the ability to expand the palette. stephanie, what would you add to that? i totally agree. yeah, when you think about a movie like everything everywhere all at once,
have to be a woman director. it could be a woman in other roles. we started awarding those stamps and really shining a light on things that were made that way and then it became, i want the stamp, and audiences are looking for the stamp. when we started, nobody wanted the stamp. we were trudging into the studio saying, we ve got this stamp, and they were like, we want no part of it, we re not going to be labelled. and now it s like, can i get the stamp? and to get the stamp, you have to hire fairly. so it is exciting that there are ways to move the needle. keri, what is lost when women are left out of the decision making process? i think with decision making, it is a hard question because there are a lot of ways to approach that. i think when any decision making