Sentences with phrase «pool of women directors»

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GFI aims for diversity in their hires primarily through hiring practices that are intended to help them minimize the effects of bias, such as encouraging staff to score applications anonymously, using generalized ability tests, and meeting applicants only late in the process.88 While they've hired many women, including in seven of nine director roles, they find that their team is lacking in diversity in other ways, and they've met with Encompass to discuss further steps they can take to develop their diversity strategy.89 One staff member we spoke to mentioned that they hoped GFI would be able to begin paying interns, which might help diversify their team by broadening the pool of potential interns who could afford to take a position with GFI.90, 91

They are mostly women — clergy, hospice and social workers, doctors, nurses and funeral directors — and they work, so to speak, in the deep end of the pool, with the dying, the dead and the bereaved.

Recruiting directors at a younger age could also help, Schuman says: «I know this younger pool has lots of qualified and amazing women who can join our ranks.»

Notable examples of people of color representation in the nominations pool come in the documentary category where the black male director of «Strong Island,» Yance Ford, is the first openly trans person to have a film nominated, and in foreign - language film where «A Fantastic Woman,» starring Chilean trans actress Daniela Vega, is a possible winner.

Women at Sundance Fellows are a cohort of six emerging and mid-career narrative and documentary directors and producers, selected from a pool of recent Sundance Institute alumnae.

At this year's Locarno Festival, (recently renewed) artistic director Carlos Chatrian similarly declared that he foresaw increasing numbers of women filmmakers in the competitions of major festivals and that he was especially proud to tout, in Locarno's main competition section (with 17 world premieres), eight women directors.1 And Locarno's outcome, amid an impressively deep competition pool, was unexpectedly different: although I, Daniel Blake did win the audience award of the Festival's mainstream Piazza Grande section, a female writer / director, Ralitza Petrova, took the festival's top prize for her brooding and bleak Bulgarian film Godless.

Since the»60s, creative writing programs have helped «democratize» the talent pool, providing «the encouragement to women and a lot of different people of different classes and ethnicities to tell their stories and write their poems,» said David Fenza, the organization's executive director.

The lunch brought together an extensive and growing pool of accomplished and aspiring women directors with chairmen, board members and senior...

The lunch will bring together an extensive and growing pool of accomplished and aspiring women directors with chairmen, board members and senior management from...