

SE2 D134: BAFTA Draws A Line in the Sand Over Diversity
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts’ (BAFTA) recent decision to alter how it bestows its highest honors to filmmakers, based on matters of diversity, has opened the proverbial can of worms within the film industry. If you somehow missed out on the news, BAFTA, the UK equivalent of America’s Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (the Oscars), has mandated that beginning in 2019 any film that fails to achieve a certain level of diversity, either in casting or


SE2 D130: Happy Belated New Year
It’s been 78 days since my last post. That’s a lot of time to get a lot of things done. Only I didn’t. It has been a rough start to the new season, which follows a rough ending to the finale of the first season. The biggest obstacle I have faced is a lack of work. There seems to have been some type of seismic shift in the work landscape here in Los Angeles. As a result, there have been fewer projects starting up and a large number of people employed in the industry (Reality T