Participant, studio behind 'Spotlight,’ ‘An Inconvenient Truth,’ shutters after 20 years
Read full article: Participant, studio behind 'Spotlight,’ ‘An Inconvenient Truth,’ shutters after 20 yearsParticipant, the activist film and television studio that has financed Oscar winners and socially conscious documentaries, is closing its doors after 20 years.
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Ava DuVernay joins the film academy's Board of Governors
Read full article: Ava DuVernay joins the film academy's Board of GovernorsLOS ANGELES Filmmaker Ava DuVernay has been elected to the film academys Board of Governors for the first time. The academy has increased the number of women and people of color on the board. Incumbent governors reelected include Whoopi Goldberg, Dolemite Is My Name screenwriter Larry Karaszewski and Participant Media CEO David Linde among others. The organization that puts on the Oscars said that the number of women on the board has gone from 25 to 26 and people of color from 11 to 12. The Board of Governors represent each of the academys 17 branches and work to set the organizations strategy, finances and fulfillment of its mission.