Exclusive: Writers Guild of America West (Wgaw) is looking to boost visibility and champion Middle Easter voices with the newly formed Middle Eastern Writers Committee (Mewc).
The new committee will help bolster Middle Eastern writers within the film and television industry, while continuing to celebrate and promote accurate portrayals of Middle Eastern characters across the media landcape. To kick things off, Mewc has set their first event highlighting Middle Eastern representation between WGA members and a panel of guests featuring Ramy co-creator and star Ramy Youssef. The virtual event will take place Febraury 24 at 7Pm Pt.
The formation of the committee stems from the release of the guild’s 2020 Inclusion Report, which showed that, while most major non-white groups were underrepresented in TV and film relative to their share of the U.S. population, Middle Eastern writers had “almost no representation at all.” A mere 0.3% of working screen and TV writers identified as Middle Eastern.
The new committee will help bolster Middle Eastern writers within the film and television industry, while continuing to celebrate and promote accurate portrayals of Middle Eastern characters across the media landcape. To kick things off, Mewc has set their first event highlighting Middle Eastern representation between WGA members and a panel of guests featuring Ramy co-creator and star Ramy Youssef. The virtual event will take place Febraury 24 at 7Pm Pt.
The formation of the committee stems from the release of the guild’s 2020 Inclusion Report, which showed that, while most major non-white groups were underrepresented in TV and film relative to their share of the U.S. population, Middle Eastern writers had “almost no representation at all.” A mere 0.3% of working screen and TV writers identified as Middle Eastern.
- 2/23/2021
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Gregg Sulkin, the rising star of MTV’s “Faking It,” is set to star in the indie movie “Status Update,” TheWrap has learned. Gabe Torres will direct from a script he co-wrote with Britt Logan, and he’ll also produce alongside John Baldecchi for Digital Riot Media. Sulkin will play a talented high school quarterback who aspires to be a journalist. With an article in mind, he embarks on a social experiment that sees him change his Facebook status from “single” to “interested in men” so he write about how perceptions of him change from his family, teammates and teachers.
- 3/16/2016
- by Jeff Sneider
- The Wrap
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