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
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
we have to look at it to make that change, you know? and even all of us, not just the white folks but all of us operate under these assumptions and biases. so really exploring that on a human level, really, i think, changed the way that people think and out of that came the toolkit. i agree. so the culture change toolkit is something that we built for them to have actual tangible tools to be able to make change along the way. like when you submit a script, take the name off. just read the script for the script. don t read betty s script orjohn s script, just read the script and see what you think. and what we discovered was scripts written by women, especially like action, or perceived genre things, were all of a sudden rising up. because there wasn t this preconception that if a woman wrote it, it wasn t as good as a man. but it was also about involving the audience, so we created something called the reframe stamp that allows films that are gender balanced
so, really exploring that on a human level, really i think changed the way that people think and out of that came the toolkit. i agree. so the culture change toolkit is something that we build for them to have actual tangible tools to be able to make change along the way. like when you submit a script, take the name off. just read the script for the script. don t read betty s script orjohn s script, just read the script and see what you think. and what we discovered was, scripts written by women, especially like action, or perceived genre things were all of a sudden rising up. because there wasn t this preconception that if a woman wrote it, it wasn t as good as a man. but it was also about involving the audience, so we created something called the reframe stamp that allows films that are gender balanced in the way they are made and in what is on the screen, and this doesn t even necessarily have to be a woman director. it could be a woman in other roles
assumptions and biases. so really exploring that on a human level, really so really exploring so really exploring that on a human level, really, really, i think, changed the way that people think and out of that came the toolkit. i agree. so the culture change toolkit is something that we built for them to have actual tangible tools to be able to make change along the way. like when you submit a script, take the name off. just read the script for the script. don t read betty s script orjohn s script, just read the script and see what you think. and what we discovered was scripts written by women, especially like action, or perceived genre things, were all of a sudden rising up. because there wasn t this preconception that if a woman wrote it, it wasn t as good as a man. but it was also about involving the audience, so we created something called the reframe stamp that allows films that are gender balanced in the way they are made and in what is on the screen, and this doesn t even nece