Andi Mack star Lilan Bowden will sit in the director’s chair for Becoming Eddie a comedy short from Ed Lee (The Drew Carey Show, Are You There, Chelsea?). The two have partnered to launch a fundraising campaign for the project which puts the lens on growing up as an Asian American kid in the 1980s, a time when…

Now in its 37th year, Outfest serves up an inclusive and intersectional slate of programming, two-thirds of which includes content directed by women, people of color and trans filmmakers. The fest, which will be held July 18-28 in Los Angeles, will open with Rachel Mason’s documentary Circus of Books which spotlights…

Just in time for Pride Month and the season 2 premiere of Pose, writer and producer Our Lady J sat in the hot seat at the New Hollywood Podcast to spill the tea and talk what led her to the critically-acclaimed, groundbreaking FX series that has just has been slaying audiences since it premiered last year. Our Lady J…

Freeform debuted the first episode of the second season ofThe Fosters spinoff Good Trouble at the ATX Television Festival ahead of the show’s June 18 premiere, and it served up some riveting, hilarious, heartwarming, heartbreaking and, in a word, uncut television. Stars Maia Mitchell and Cierra Ramirez took the stage…

The Diversity in Cannes Short Film Showcase unveiled the winners of this year’s competition. Yolonda Brinkley, creator of Diversity in Cannes, the global film movement promoting inclusion at the Cannes Film Festival, announced the winners of the 17 uniquely themed films that were in the running. The showcase, which is…

Actress Tiya Sircar stars in the new Netflix film Good Sam and also appears in the NBC comedy The Good Place. Needless to say, there is plenty of “good” in her life. A Texas native and the daughter of Indian immigrants, Sircar’s journey to Hollywood was very, as she puts it, “pragmatic”. Many children of immigrants…

Just in time for Pride Month, the winners for this year’s Inside Out LGBT Film Festival were announced today in Toronto at the annual awards ceremony. Winners included Garin Nugroho for Memories of My Body which received the Inside Out Special Award for Innovation as well as Xiang Zi for A Dog Barking at the Moon for…

In NBC’s ongoing advocacy for representation in key production roles, they have launched the networks first below-the-line initiatives. The two newly created pipeline programs focus on diversifying representation among production coordinators and production assistants. The new annual initiatives are spearheaded by NBC…

Since debuting last year, the Starz series Vida has garnered critical acclaim but also has served up a different type of Latinx narrative on TV. The series takes place in East Los Angeles, but it isn’t a typical Latinx story of cholos and gangs that Hollywood tends to love. Vida, which recently premiered its second…

On Thursday morning, GLAAD released its seventh annual Studio Responsibility Index which sheds some light on the quantity, quality, and diversity of LGBTQ people in films released by the seven largest motion picture studios and their subsidiaries during the 2018 calendar year — and it was a good year for LGTBQ represen…

As alums from Saturday Night Live, Chris Kelly and Sarah Schneider created some memorable sketches such as the ever-popular “Beygency” sketch where Beyonce doubters were put in their place as well as the “Dyke and Fats” sketch featuring Aidy Bryant and Kate McKinnon (the duo wrote for them during their tenure at the…

In American Gods, Yetide Badaki plays Bilquis a Goddess Queen, a character that has a very powerful way of getting what she wants — especially from men. Outside of the fantasy series, Badaki isn’t like Bilquis in that way, but she connects with the character just like she did when she read the Neil Gaiman novel on…