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A total of 28 of the most popular films of 2021 met the criteria to receive the ReFrame Stamp, the designation that confirms a movie production crew is gender-balanced. That is off one pic from last year’s 29 films, the most ever. Despite the slight dip, organizers ReFrame and IMDbPro saw bigger gains inside the…

ReFrame, the gender equity coalition founded by Women in Film and the Sundance Institute, and IMDbPro, announced the 117 TV and streaming shows that earned the ReFrame Stamp for the years 2020 to 2021. Among the honorees are FX’s Pose, Netflix’s Bridgerton, HBO’s Lovecraft Country, and Disney+’s WandaVision. The stamp…

EXCLUSIVE: The inclusive coalition of industry professionals known as ReFrame has selected former director of Canada's Inside Out LGBTQ Film Festival Andria Wilson Mirza as its new Director. In addition, the organization has created the new ReFrame Council, which includes the initiative's founding members, WIF…

ReFrame and IMDbPro have given 29 of the 100 most popular scripted films of 2020 the ReFrame Stamp, which is as a mark of distinction for projects that have achieved gender-balanced hiring. This is a 12% increase over 2019. ReFrame is a coalition of industry professionals and partner companies founded by Women In Film…

Women in Film, ReFrame and IMDbPro have teamed on a short-film contest for the coronavirus era. They have launched the Curbside Shorts Filmmaking Challenge, in which women and non-binary filmmakers from North America create a brief movie inspired by life while sheltering in place. All genres are welcome, and…

An intensive new study commissioned by ReFrame and the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative is refuting what they call the “myth” that movies with female or underrepresented lead or co-leading characters earn less money at the box office than films with male or white leads/co leads. The report, titled “The Ticket to…

As part of the Stella Artois & Deadline Sundance Series, Nisha Ganatra, Bruna Papandrea, and Cathy Schulman sat down for special Women in Film panel titled "#GotStamped: Gender Parity Success Stories" moderated by Amanda N’Duka. Ganatra collaborated with Mindy Kaling for Late Night which, Deadline exclusively reported…

ReFrame, the coalition formed by Women in Film and the Sundance Institute, and IMDbPro has given their first small-screen stamps of approval to 62 TV and streaming programs. Among them are The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, The Handmaid’s Tale, GLOW, Empire, Broad City and all five of Shonda Rhimes’ Shondaland series. See the…

ReFrame, the coalition formed by Women in Film and the Sundance Institute, and IMDbPro have added 22 more titles to the list of movies earning the ReFrame Stamp, which recognize standout, gender-balanced films. The program launched June 8 with 12 films on the list from a group comprising the top 100 domestic-grossing…

ReFrame, a coalition of Hollywood pros and partner companies founded by Women In Film and Sundance Institute, is taking the wraps off its ReFrame Stamp on IMDbPro. The stamps were first tipped in March when the group introduced a handbook with key proposals to help promulgate meaningful reform and diverse hiring…

EXCLUSIVE: Two days after Best Actress winner Frances McDormand led a handful of female Oscar nominees and winners to stand as she urged for more inclusion in Hollywood, the ReFrame initiative has generated a handbook with numerous key proposals its organizers believe will help promulgate meaningful reform and diverse…

Last year, all it took was a hashtag, #OscarsSoWhite, to re-energize an important conversation. Twelve months later, Moonlight director Barry Jenkins made history by becoming the first African-American filmmaker to be nominated for Best Director, Picture and Screenplay at the Academy Awards. And, as everyone knows…