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‘I’ll Meet You There’ Tells a Poignant Tale of Identity Against a Thrilling Backdrop 4 min read Making a movie as an independent filmmaker is an extremely difficult task. Finding enough funding, to the actual production and post-production process, to actually getting audiences to watch the film – there are so many areas for potential problems. But making or distributing a film during the pandemic? That’s nearly impossible. Director Iram Parveen Bilal’s newest feature “I’ll Meet You There” passed all of the normal hurdles and was selected for SXSW 2020, before the pandemic ...
Oscars 2021 snubbed movie theaters in an hour of need By not calling audiences to action for traditional moviegoing, the Oscars snubbed struggling theaters in a time of need. (Nicole Vas / Los Angeles Times) April 27, 2021 6 AM PT Print This is the April 27, 2021, edition of The Wide Shot, a weekly newsletter about everything happening in the business of entertainment. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. As the cinematic experience mounts a tenuous recovery more than a year into the pandemic, one might think that Hollywood’s brightest stars, basking in Oscar glory, would have tak...
THR Illustration / Disney: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg via Getty Images; Castle: Disneyland Resort/Christian Thompson; Becker: Sylvain Gaboury/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images. Abigail Disney (left) and Adrienne Becker set up Level Forward as a public benefit corporation, designed to be a for-profit entity, but one that calls for serving the public good. The company, co-founded with Adrienne Becker to back inclusive projects and promote an equitable workplace, now finds itself reckoning with internal missteps. Says Disney: "We own the ways in which we've messed up." In early 2018, philanthr...
Abigail Disney Admits ‘Missteps,’ Internal Dissent at Level Forward: ‘We F–ed Up’ “We own the ways in which we’ve messed up. Where we’ve learned of problems, we’ve tried to course-correct,” co-founder says Brian Welk | April 21, 2021 @ 9:44 AM Photo by Jemal Countess/Getty Images for Women's Media Center) Abigail Disney is admitting that the company culture at Level Forward, the aspirational film and theater company she co-founded, has been laden with “missteps” after former employees of color spoke out about internal dissent in the company. Disney’s admission comes ...